{"id":28,"date":"2008-12-05T14:39:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T14:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/mormoninquiry\/2008\/12\/are-mormons-the-victims.html"},"modified":"2008-12-05T14:39:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T14:39:01","slug":"are-mormons-the-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/mormoninquiry\/2008\/12\/are-mormons-the-victims.html","title":{"rendered":"Are Mormons the victims?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the LA Times, of all places: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2008\/12\/are-mormon-the.html\">Are Mormons the victims in the Prop 8 fight?<\/a>&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure I agree with the framing of the story &#8212; it seems to imply that every story, even a political story, must have a victim, with the media&#8217;s job being to correctly identify the victim for us, the readers. But it&#8217;s nice they care.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In reply to Trailer Trash&#8217;s comment from the previous Prop 8 post: I&#8217;m sorry you don&#8217;t appreciate my selection of blogging topics. But if I&#8217;m going to run a blog that talks about Mormon issues, including current news, I really can&#8217;t avoid this issue. It&#8217;s all over the papers and has generated a huge amount of discussion on LDS blogs as well as in the mainstream media. And if I&#8217;m going to comment on a story, I pretty much have to call it like I see it. If you think my view of Prop 8 is some sort of unsupported fringe view, I think you need to do a reality check. The definition of marriage now written into the California constitution has now garnered a majority vote in two California general elections, an outcome that reflects outcomes in thirty other states where similar measures have been on the ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the LA Times, of all places: &#8220;Are Mormons the victims in the Prop 8 fight?&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure I agree with the framing of the story &#8212; it seems to imply that every story, even a political story, must have a victim, with the media&#8217;s job being to correctly identify the victim for us,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prop-8"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Are Mormons the victims? 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