 Los Angeles Times | Review: '8: The Mormon Proposition' preaches to the choir San Jose Mercury News 7, 2008 publicity image released by Red Flag Releasing, people gather to protest the Mormon church and their support of California's 2008 Proposition 8, ... Prop 8: Mormon Persecution, Marriage and the Refuge of Patriotism Documentary Explores Mormon Role in Calif. Gay-Marriage Fight The roots of '8: The Mormon Proposition' |
Review: ’8: The Mormon Proposition’ preaches to the choir – San Jose Mercury News
June 22nd, 2010 | Uncategorized
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This documentary reflects the efforts of those that created it and us that are in it, to hold OUR (now former) church accountable for the pain they knowingly inflicted on OUR families and the LGBT community.
- The film maker wanting to accurately portray the churches position, asked multiple times for Mormon leaders input on the film and they refused. As a local Utah paper reported: “It’s unfortunate that the leadership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has gone into attack-the-messenger mode regarding Reed Cowan’s documentary “8: The Mormon Proposition…that the response by an LDS Church spokesman at the movie’s 2010 Sundance Film Festival premiere was to label Cowan’s film, sight unseen, “obviously biased” and to opine that “it appears that accuracy and truth are rare commodities in this film.”
- The documentary IS NOT about disagreeing with the church’s moral standards or their right to spend their money on issues they feel are important.
- It IS about hypocrisy; how a church (that says it is all about “being honest in our dealings with our fellow men”), knowingly created and funded dishonest ads to promote their own moral agenda; and (by their own admissions) hid their involvement. The Church stated in their own documents, that if the voters knew the extent of the church’s involvement, it would negatively impact the vote.
- This documentary does not claim that the LDS Church did this alone, even though at its strong urging, its members (only 2% of the voters) donated over 70% of the money contributed and over 90% of the volunteer efforts.
We know that when most members of the LDS Church see this film they will be shocked at what their leaders did, and a few scary fanatics will sternly defend their leaders rights to use lies, deception, or ??? in the name of God. “It’s better that one man should parish (be killed) than a whole nation dwindle in unbelief.” Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 4
We would hope the displeased members of other groups, be they Catholic, Protestant, African American, Latino, Baptist…, would hold their leaders accountable as well.
Linda Stay – Moms For Equality ****.com
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