Producer Reed Cowan's amazing new documentary is ready for its close-up.
Check out the short trailer. Just click here: 8: The Mormon Proposition
This could well be the movie of the year. Take a look at the web site, read all about the movie and see who is behind it. You will be even more impressed.
I received a call from Reed earlier this year. He was coming out to San Francisco to film all the activities around the oral arguments being made before the California Supreme Court in San Francisco in the case to overturn Proposition 8.
Having played a very active role in uncovering the massive involvement of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) in last year's Prop 8 campaign, Reed asked me to be in his documentary.
I went up to San Francisco on Wednesday, March 4th to be a part of history, and see this filmmaker begin his journey. I met Reed and his partner Greg in front of the Castro Theater at 6:00 pm. That is the spot where the march to City Hall was about to begin on a chilly San Francisco night.
There were thousands and thousands of demonstrators gathering, ready to begin their solemn candlelight vigil to City Hall. We were recreating the famous nighttime march of 30 years ago, right after Harvey Milk was assassinated.
Reed grew up Mormon in Utah, and knows firsthand the inner workings of the Church. He knew that there was an incredible story to tell, and he spent the better part of a year putting every aspect of this documentary together.
All his hard work, and that of so many others who participated in this strong indictment of the Mormon Church and its leaders, will undoubtedly change history.
I have watched this filmmaker every step of the way over the last eight months. I went to Miami for a second interview in April, and this summer, Reed dispatched a film crew to my home for some final questions. He is very thorough.
8: The Mormon Proposition will explain once and for all just how the Mormon Church operates, and how they have led the fight against marriage equality all across the United States since Utah became the first state to ban same-sex marriage in 1995. 29 states have followed Utah's lead, and the Mormon Church has made sure of that.
The film also goes into great depth about how the Mormon Church has destroyed so many lives and families in its desire to impose its will on others.
Please tell the world about this incredible documentary. It is a film for all to see.
Thank you Reed Cowan and everyone else who gave up so much and worked so hard to make Reed's dream a reality.
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The fact of the matter is that most Americans don't approve of same-sex marriage. Look no further than the polls to see this:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/118378/majority-americans-continue-oppose-gay-marriage.aspx
If anything this film will result in more support of the Mormon Church for their efforts to stop same-sex marriage legislation by religious (and non-religious) people who feel it shouldn't be legal. For homosexuals who say people who oppose same-sex marriage--that is just silly. In truth, we simply don't feel same-sex marriage is good for society and don't understand why it has become such a priority for homosexuals.
I fully support the Mormon Church in their efforts and will continue to do so.
"Ten Arguments From Social Science Against Same-Sex Marriage":
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IF04G01
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14249810
1. It will give the church an even higher profile(for free) and keep in mind-The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is actually on the same side as the vast majority of Americans regarding the issue of Gay Marriage. What was the last poll that came out a few days ago? Only 39% of Americans favor Gay Marriage and nearly 50% think being gay is morally wrong?--people who are ardently Christian will gravitate to a church that mirrors their values and isnt afraid to stand up to the world when push comes to shove.
2. It will make the gay marriage movement seem like its picking on a defenseless church. It will make them look spiteful, petty and reveal them for the sore losers they apparently are. I mean, the church and/ or its supporters need only remind voters and undecideds of the blacklisting and near riotous events outside Mormon Temples that occured immediately following the election. In some cases, they even sought to intimidate or shame people at their homes(btw, homes are seen as almost sacred sanctuaries in the minds of most Americans). Gay Activists looked like bullies and that will not play well with the American People.
Why would you comment on something that you have no knowledge about?
The people who are members of this church or any, for that matter, are not perfect. Equating their statements or opinions as synonymous with their religion's doctrine is simple minded. Mormons are told in scripture to seek the truth for themselves, and get that from God, not man. Including those who try to bully you into going along with their political agenda.
I wish Mormons could see this through gays/lesbians eyes to know the hurt and anger they caused us.....but they won't.
One thing you get reading comments at Deseret News, LDS members haven't a moments hesitation or remorse for what they did to hundreds of thousand LGBTs in CA, they are too busy playing THE VICTIM, and have the sheer gall to compare themselves to Black Civil Right leaders oppression in the 1960's.
As the LDS opens 5 new temples...yeah you look just like Black men and women and children facing firehoses in Birmingham bridge.
And where on earth do you get "voter intimidation?" Are there gay posses gathering at polling places, harassing Mormons on their way in? I understand that a few people feel like their livelihoods where threatened by boycotts, but that's not voter intimidation in the usual sense of the word. What do you expect when you try to take rights away from people who believe or feel differently? And make no mistake, that's what the church leaders were advocating, limiting the rights of other religions to solemnize marriages they believed were legitimate. How did Mormons feel about that in the late 1800s?
Also, i'm sorry that you need a supernatural force to tell you what's right and wrong.
that church in Salt Lake, listening to....... to what? Prayers for
salvation?
The people who's lives they have affected will survive. They will
find other avenues of achievement. The people in that church
will forever remain prisoners, prisoners of their fears. They are
afraid that they have produced offspring that offends their God.
By turning their backs on their own children, they believe they
will appease their God.
They are the ones who need our thoughts, our kindness.
Salvation? Salvation of doing nothing to make the world a better
place? Salvation from the world and the place they have created
for themselves? Turning a deaf ear, shuffling with down cast eyes,
forcing mental strains of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to keep
out the cries of anguish of their children, their flesh and blood.
All because they need someone to tell them what to do instead
of recognizing for themselves what needs to be done and
doing it.
May the United States of America have mercy on their bodies.
And may their last moments on this earth not be filled with
more fear and terror of what they have done
- Peace out
Also, the documentary will be wonderful if it is truthful. Take away the bias for "poor picked on gays" and you might have an open debate.
We don't have the luxury of experimenting on children. The whole crux of the "Mormon issue" is not where someone sleeps, but changing God's plan for families. When we think we are better than God at creating families we set ourselves up for disaster.
http://www.fairlds.org/pubs/Krakauer.pdf
Rational debate requires people to discuss actual facts, actual reasoning.
BTW, homosexuals are raising families and living together already. Giving them equal rights changes nothing on that front.