I love your line, “cause gay couples are legitimate here and they haven’t destroyed anyone’s marriage.”

Great to hear from you Caleb, hope all is going well.
So we still let you vote even though you are in Sweden? Now THAT is wrong

Palin is no friend of mine, and I wish Mormons would realize that evangelicals are like that snake that asks for a ride, and when you get to the destination is bites you and says, “you knew what I was when you picked me up.” Evangelicals aren’t bashful and state on their websites often that they view Mormons as a non-Christian cult. Do we really want to get in bed with them? I’m not saying we can’t be civil and when goals align like humanitarian efforts, but so many Mormons want to jump in bed with them not realizing that the probably the biggest reason evangelicals like Mormons is our money. I do recall back in middle/high school though wanting to feel legitimized that we were indeed Christian to the other Christian faiths.

Also the church fighting gay marriage is hard for me to swallow. Does anyone remember polygamy, something we don’t practice now, but still believe in? Whatever happened to teaching the people and letting them govern themselves. What happened to reserving the right to worship God how we want and letting others worship God how they want (Article of Faith). Well some people don’t buy that gay marriage is a sin, so why should they have to live under the rule of those that do? The whole gay marriage thing reeks of denying the priesthood to blacks as well. There hasn’t been a definitive ‘thus saith the Lord,’ instead just a lot of cultural norms creep in and dominate the discussion. It’s telling that the leadership can’t give any more reason to oppose gay marriage than ‘it’ll just be really bad if it passes.’ Seems to be the leading of men as opposed to inspiration. Sure it will change things, but aren’t we all for people living the law of chastity which is to make things as monogamous as possible. Also it’s interesting cause the normal is just to encourage people to vote, and I bet 90~95% of Mormons would vote against gay marriage without any encouragement. The thing is that the church knows that support for gay marriage is growing and so they have to try and mobilize what support they can to their cause. So we see the church of our youth who never got more involved than to say be involved, trying to direct us politically. The fact is that more and more people are knowing a gay person and realizing they aren’t demons that chose to be gay and they just want to be happy.

How can you love someone while doing everything possible to say they are 2nd class citizen and do what you can to keep them from being happy?

I know this is already way too long, but one last thing. It’s funny that here in Sweden where gay unions are normal and they are moving to legitimize gay marriage, though there is this thing called sambo which is basically you’ve told the government that you live together and so you don’t get all the legal rights of marriage, but if you break up it can be a lot like divorce (though you can do it civilly and avoid lawyers), if you tell some members about what the church is doing in Arizona and California they don’t believe it, cause gay couples are legitimate here and they haven’t destroyed anyone’s marriage.