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The price of voting one’s conscience
By
Dave Banack
… and making a political donation: at the LA Times, “A life thrown into turmoil by $100 donation for Prop. 8.” The LA Times continues to write interesting reflections on the continuing saga of Prop 8. The journalist refers to activists and protesters who harrassed customers at the restaurant as “the mob.” Interesting term.
Mad at the LDS Church
By
Dave Banack
No time for commentary this morning, but here are more Prop 8 stories from across the full range of the opinion spectrum: “Why we’re mad at the Mormon church,” by an LA Times columnist. I believe the “we” in the headline refers to the gay community, not the LA Times. The piece defends gay attacks…
Some Prop 8 answers
By
Dave Banack
In an effort to improve the signal-to-noise ratio in the Prop 8 comment threads, here is a link to comments by a California law prof posted shortly after the election. A couple of key paragraphs: Note that Prop 8 does not affect registered domestic partnerships. It also does not affect antidiscrimination laws (Unruh) which prohibit…
Are Mormons the victims?
By
Dave Banack
At the LA Times, of all places: “Are Mormons the victims in the Prop 8 fight?” I’m not sure I agree with the framing of the story — it seems to imply that every story, even a political story, must have a victim, with the media’s job being to correctly identify the victim for us,…
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