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  • Some of you dumb asses are missing the OBVIOUS point here.

    African Americans are 85% Protestant. THAT is why they take the stance against gay rights, like they do.

  • @iShutEmUp Funny you mention religion when slavery was justified using Christian principles as well. It was widely accepted at the time that blacks were inferior to whites by design, and to advocate equality was to go against the natural order of things. Quakers and Abolitionists were considered people who went against God's will. How ironic that the same is said about gay rights advocates today.

  • @UNLebanon Oh, no, I wasn't endorsing that crazy ass religion.

    I was just saying that people were trying to blame Black Americans in general for their stance against homosexuality, when they're missing the big picture that they're, for the most part, Protestant.

    And Protestants, in general, are against homosexuality. So, to focus on one group of Protestants to criticize would be pointless.

  • Black People (palms forehead)

  • Whatever. Gay marriage will eventually pass in every state, and future generations will laugh at us for opposing it.

  • @CitrusSucker More like hang their heads in shame

  • Funny video!! Blacks were discriminated against, and in return, they discriminate against others lol!! Lesson not learned. Lol

    Stop all the hatred and focus on YOUR fatherless homes, rappers as "heroes", black on black violence, and welfare dependency. Marriage equality is the least if your "problems". All people are equal, black, white, straight, or gay.

  • @TruAgape123 So, did you thing your racist generalization on Black people was cute and helpful?

  • On Obama's next term. Gay marraige will get approved. I'm just stating this as a fact because it's pretty obvious. That statement has nothing to do with my personal beliefs (which are the opposite of popular opinion) and it has nothing to do with if I want obama back. But I mean, we all know that he wants it passed. And it will get passed his next term.

  • @Blackbarbietea Awesome.

  • The only obstacle standing in the way of the salvation of marriage is the legitimization of gay marriage

  • Who posted this garbage video. This makes me laugh at the rediculousness!

  • The reason why the majority of blcks voted for prop 8 is because the hard truth is that the far majority of blacks are gay!!!!!!!!! The statistics clearly prove this. Stats show that over 80 percent of black males have homosexual relations, but will not admit to it.

  • @1dkidd Define homosexual relations. I know alot of men that were raped/ molested. I think that hardly counts.

    And this comes from personal experience and knowing people on a personal level.

  • @Blackbarbietea

    Homosexual relations-meaning actually having sex between two men, including oral and anal sex and both parties are consenting. It is a well known fact that homosexuality is FAR MORE common in the black community than the white community. This is the reason why the black community is vastly more homophobic.

  • @1dkidd , you're right.

  • @1dkidd nice one moron last time i checked when i saw the gay parades on tv, 99% were white faggots like your self!

  • @duodu2000

    The last time I checked, black women have the highest rates of AIDS in America due to the fact that their black husbands are on the "down low" and not even telling their wives. Homosexuality is much more common in blacks than it is in whites, however whites are vastly more tolerant of same sex equality. (again think of the term, "down low" common in the black community). This also explains why blacks are not found in jobs like firefighting, law enforcement, military, etc.

  • The passing of prop 8 shows that we aren't really a country that is based upon the principles of liberty, pro-choice, entitlement to equal rights, and justice. Unfortunately it is the other way around. =( It's very sad that we are the land of hypocrisy, but hopefully something will be done to adress the issue.

  • Hey 72% of black chilldren are born illegetimatly. I guess black people dont believe in marriage for hetros or Homos. So I guess its O.k. Hey they are church going people. They feel its wrong to be gay but its o.k. to make chilldren and not be responsible for them. Yes black familly values.

  • Both men and women who marry live longer, healthier and happier lives. On virtually every

    measure of health and well-being, married people are better-off than otherwise similar singles, on

    average.

  • Marriage protects children’s physical and mental health. Children whose parents get and stay

    married are healthier and also much less likely to suffer mental illness, including depression and teen

    suicide.

  • Jesus also

    affirmed that lasting, loving marriage is basic to God’s plan for us. “But from the beginning of creation

    God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to

    his wife. . .What therefore God hath joined, let not man put asunder.” [Mark 10: 6,7,9]

  • Most Christians know from the Bible that marriage is part of God’s original order. “And the Lord God

    said, It is not good that the man should be alone, I will make him a help mate” [Genesis 2:18].

  • In fact, new census estimates released last week show that among the 3,200-plus counties in the nation, only 24 have more than a third of their households consisting of married-couple families with young children. Eight of those 24 are in Utah.

  • Two types of U.S. counties tend to have large numbers of married-couple families with children under age 18, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. One is wealthy suburbs. The other: counties in Utah.

  • A spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Friday that it's too soon to know whether the tabernacle is a total loss. But those who saw the damage were not optimistic.

    "It would be so tremendously expensive, I fear that it's almost an impossibility," said D. Robert Carter, a historian from Springville who first visited the tabernacle in the 1940s to sing in a Primary choir during an LDS Stake conference. . .

  • If blacks are so darn worried about marriage, then they don't really show it very well with a 70% bastard birth rate

  • @MountMarcyNY Your wrong its 72% Hey they really dont believe in marriage so it makes sense that they vote against gay marriage. If you are the biggest drug kingpin you are a hero in the black community but if you are gay you are the lowest thing there. Its o.k. to have sex out of marriage but being gay is a direct ticket to hell. Talk about stupid hypocracy.

  • @QBRikan77 About half of them are on the down-low anyways

  • Why are you a bigot?

  • @mavs2147 I've not been on here in awhile. Are you asking me if I'm a bigot?

  • That's great that the African Americans joined their fellow European American brothers and sisters in this fight to keep marriage what it is intended as. Good job guys!

  • @TOXIC00L I had to remove your comment for profanity.

  • @YesProp8 tis cool lass. no offence intended.

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  • i love how they complain./

    oh yeah you tadpoles thought you were going to trick the African American Californians into helping you?

    you poofs were sadly mistaken.

  • look at the likes vs dislikes.. need i say more? lol

  • This video makes me sick... "Protect marriage" means one thing, "we are afraid of what we don't know so we want to stop it from happening"... Just one thing, you can't stop people from being gay or wanting to be married... It's horrible that you can't respect homosexuals, you can't recognize them as equal, and you will do anything to not feel threatened by that which you do not understand... I am saddened this video got 80 likes... 80 people who hate what they can't accept or understand, so sad.

  • This is sick. A tribute to blacks for discriminating against a group that is different from them. Prop 8 showed that the african american community is as bad as everyone else. You would think that of all people, blacks would have a unique understanding of the plight of a people who are desperate for equal rights. But I guess not. What a sad day in american history this was. Sad...Sad...Sad

  • Disgusting. Bigotry is unAmerican. You people are no better than the Taliban. Religion is a mental illness.

  • @AsianMen4Me actually bigotry is the American way how the hell do you think we won every war but 1.

    discrimination and annihilation.

  • Protect marriage from what?

  • This sort of discrimination against gays is caused due to people 'believing' in god because their religion whether it be Islam or Christianity state gays are abominable, a SIN therefore they must be "... Put To Death".

    It's sad how people can NOT marry whom they want. Free yourself from RELIGION and you shall be an open minded clear thinking person!

  • EQUALITY FOR ALL,GAY OR STRAIGHT!!!

  • Don't you DARE use the race card to justify your hate. I had no one to turn to when I came out, and despite my plea my father, a born-again Christian insisted I could change. I have fought my parents, my school, my church, my peers and my community to be accepted and in the end I had to give it all away and start fresh.

  • Hrmm interesting Vid. I would like to see the Media and youtubers demonizepeople of dark complexion and make them take the heat for prop 8 the way they do LDS. They fear the backlash or what? Myhats off to you for the vid. It;s a great one. Glad to see people standing up for whats right in this Land.

  • Repent Gays

    Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.

    Romans 1: 26 For this cause YHVH gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

    27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

  • @derekdb2 You do understand that in the next verse it tells you to stone disobedient children right? Do you also agree with that?

  • @benarddor this comment had to go because of the vulgarity.

  • @CrimesonWitcher and this comment.

  • @YesProp8 Listen if you think i support PROP 8 I really don't I made the mistake of siding with this video without seeing it all the way through. I do not support prop 8 and I'm glad it got over turned. No one has the right to practice their religion if it gets in the way of the happiness of others!

  • @benarddor removed this comment too for the same reason.

  • @1BoyCountry Your comment was removed for vulgarity. Vulgarity is antifamily. Why are the No on Prop 8 people antifamily?

  • @benarddor Your comment was removed for profanity. My videos will stay profamily.

  • @CrimesonWitcher same with this comment.

  • @CrimesonWitcher Your comment was removed for profanity. Profanity is antifamily. We are the No on Prop 8 people antifamily?

  • @Enigmafly13 so was this one.

  • @Enigmafly13 Your comment was removed for profanity.

  • @sessakag Your comment was removed for profanity.

  • @YesProp8 Okay, so what?

  • What has become of America...

  • Judge Walker is my hero!

  • Lol and some of the people who voted for your black president were gay people.

  • (1) Judge Walker’s decision is internally, logically inconsistent in its treatment of the worth of cultural values, arguing that morality and tradition are not a valid basis for supporting the legal status of marriage, but at the same time finding a Constitutional violation from the fact that the same-sex alternative (domestic partnerships) lacks the social and cultural status that marriage has…and which it derives from its grounding in longstanding moral, cultural and religious traditions;

  • I feel that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but if we went back to the days of segragation etc. black people would be like bummed. They fort so hard for their rights etc. so they should be completely up for everyone else to have their own rights and if they are not, then basically they contradict everything that they apparently stand for.

  • @1BoyCountry redefining marriage is NOT a right.

  • Black people who would vote yes on this are stupid. Its a JIM CROW LAW! Wow. You people are ignorant. So back when blacks were told they couldnt be with any non whites your gonna turn around and dictate who can marry who? Your disgusting if your black and voted yes for this.

  • So If marriage is a holy union and I'm an atheist that means i cant get married right? oh wait, yes i can, because it just a binding legal contract.

    Seriously you can get married nowadays dressed as a klingon. just how is that holy?

  • marriage is a contract between two people. Just because YOU believe it's a union between only a man and a woman, does not mean that it IS supposed to be. Anyone who is anti-gay marriage is a bigot or a closet bigot.

    Yes on prop 8 is anti-civil rights, glad it has been overturned.

    Not gay myself, but everyone on this planet should be able to live as they wish, so long as what they do does not infringe on the rights and freedoms as others.

    How does gay marriage infringe on yours?

  • So...you agree with niggers but not Black people? LMAO! Last time I checked, Africans were very tolerant of gay culture because Europe destroyed it. I don't consider Black Americans as Africans...I see then as a pack of niggers who are making decent black folk look bad. Christianity is a joke.

  • what's the second song? who sings that version of it?

  • who sings that version of swing low sweet chariot

  • ired of he similarity people use when comparing black plight o homosexual.

  • Stating that i'm friends with gay people but i just don't want them to get married is like saying, im friends with black people i just want them to sit at the back of the bus.

  • @Triforce007 The back of the bus is cool now, thats where everyone wants to sit..so your analogy doesnt make sense to me.

  • Tensions with established residents in the area led to mob hostility and expulsion of church members from that city.

  • The Mormon History Association, a nondenominational group, is holding its annual conference Thursday through Sunday at the Holiday Inn-CoCo Key Water Resort hotel in Kansas City, which is just seven miles from downtown Independence, where Joseph Smith, prophet and founding president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, endeavored to establish the center of the church in the early 1830s.

  • @Enigmafly13 I would NEVER say gay is the new black... what i did say is we have to fight for our rights i.e. protection under the law, equality in marriage, antidiscrimination laws ECT do any of these terms sound familiar? They should cause blacks had to fight for the same things... including the right to marry a white person... my god i would NEVER say gay is the new black... Gay is many different people groups, Black is, well... black... i feel kinda sorry for you...

  • @montfalkon

    the leaders of that movement should have never started it though because that is what we all heard. You guys would have had a better chance if that thing never started. because me personally have nothing against gays but i did however get a vendetta when i heard that.

    And you dont have to feel sorry for me because i have a girl i bang every night...and day....and noon. hahaha

  • California voters approved Proposition 8 in November to define marriage in the state constitution as the exclusive union of a man and a woman. The initiative overturned a May 2008 ruling from the state Supreme Court that legalized same-sex "marriage."

    The Chronicle reports that obtaining the memos was part of a strategy whereby Walker could throw out the voter-approved constitutional amendment without saying that the amendment in itself was unconstitutional.

  • Abraham H. Foxman, the National Director of the ADL, was in Utah this week and told the Deseret News Editorial Board Thursday morning that he had learned a lot during his meeting with six apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

    "We have a lot in common, Jews and Mormons," he said.

  • @omiolo But much more not in common,. Morons are the biggest bigots who always trash other faiths so they can dupe fools into joining theirs. Morons were big in Germany too b4 WW ll,

  • @MountMarcyNY "Morons are the biggest bigots"

    Then I suggest you STOP being a moron then you can rid yourself of your BIGOTRY!

  • @omiolo Then I suggest the Morons stop annoying people by pushing & selling their fake trash to others first.

  • @MountMarcyNY "stop annoying people"

    YOU come to a pro-marriage video to push YOUR ANTI-marriage nonsense and then you have the audacity to accuse OTHERS of annoying people? Time for YOU to leave your imaginary world!

  • @omiolo You should too, like the fake fraud you call Mormonism. Joe Smith was the Jim Jones of the 19th Century. total fake history & mind control. Wanna buy some special underwear?

  • @MountMarcyNY "You should too"

    I should what? NO go on ANTImarriage videos and annoy people? Why don't you lead by example? HYPOCRITE

  • @MountMarcyNY Yes they were. And I believe if memory serves me right, the only religious belief allowed to exist openly in Germany, was catholicism, was it not?

  • @TheReformed1 Not just Catholics, . The Nazis established an Aryan Church which was made up of elements of mainly the Lutheran Church. While many various clergymen were jailed or killed, no church was ever forbidden to operate. Their armed forces had clergymen all through the war

  • @MountMarcyNY However, it was due to a state created religion. If the clergymen, dared to preach the truth out of the bible, they were exterminated or tortured till they recanted.

  • @TheReformed1 The Catholics knew about the Holocaust, They could have told the world. Heck they all just about declared holy war against the Reds, excommunicating all Communists. But no such treatment for the Nazis since the Pope was more concerned about the Communists & saw the Nazis as sort of protector. Sorry it was hundreds of allied divisions, 100s of 1000s of planes, tanks, ships etc that beat the Nazis, not a bunch of church people; who most were friendly to the Nazis at first anyways.

  • "Every time I go and look for a shirt that is no more than four fingers down. I try to have sleeves longer. I try to find fabrics that aren't see-through. I try to get skirts at least down to my knees," said Arian Luke.

  • Lol, so much for civil rights huh? Pretty funny that a group of people that fought so long and hard for their own rights is so quick and happy to deny rights to others.

  • kind of sad a group of people that have had major issues with civil rights, would support taking away the civil rights of others.... what the harm in two adult, consenting people joining into a state-sponsored institution so they can take care of each other?

  • "Did the Dutch leaders tell you it (the fall of Srebrenica) was because there were gay soldiers there?" asked an incredulous Levin.

    "Yes," Sheehan said and added: "They included that as part of the problem."

    Gen Sheehan, who retired from the military in 1997, said he had been told that by the former chief of staff of the Dutch army.

  • A former American general blamed "open homosexuality" in the Dutch army for the failure to prevent the Srebrenica massacre in 1995.

  • @omiolo yes and it's been proven that the former general LIED to congress. Which being that he was testifying before congress means that he perjured himself and should be punished.

  • @wolfinleather

    I think you should reread the articles, the general apologized for what he said and admitted he shouldn't have said it but said it was still true.

  • @omiolo Then you need to re-read all of the articles... because the person that he said he spoke with has denied ever saying that.

  • @Gulfporter

    Your comment was removed for vulgarity. This is antifamily.

    Why are the No on Prop 8 people antifamily?

  • @YesProp8

    By the way, it's "promised land" not "promise land".

    As for vulgarity, vulgarity is black people voting for Prop 8.

    Do you think that the white people who supported equal rights and affirmative action for black people actually thought of black people as equals? No, we did not. But we did it anyway because it was the right thing to do. Apparently you wouldn't know the right thing to do even when it's been lain out for you in plain English that a dull normal could understand.

  • @YesProp8 The Westboro Baptist Church shows up at funerals and cheers when our soldiers die. Why do Christians hate the troops?

    See, anyone can stereotype, selectively choosing the worst behavior from their opponents and claiming that 'they're all like that.' But this is an immoral, dishonest tactic, and I hope you refrain from doing so in the future.

  • @frenhdude Dude Southern USA is always conservative and not a single southern state legalized gay marriage. California is very liberal but bigots voters voted for prop 8. i can't wait for the 2010 California ballot. They going to have a "repeal on prop 8" amendment.

  • @sessakag

    Obama better figure out a way to do something Democratic, because if he doesn't he's not going to be re-elected. This gay boy won't be fooled again. Single Payer health care and equality for gay people by 2012, or it's time for Obama to go home.

    Chew on that, Jackass.

  • As far as when black people were slave, its still not compatable. You can't change your color, gay people choose not to get help, there for it cannot be comapred. Get some help.

  • @sessakag You can't choose not to be gay. You either are or your aren't. Just like those who can't choose to not be heterosexual. There isn't any help for heterosexuality. If you can honestly choose to be homosexual and act on it and be in a relationship then and only then can you even begin to say it's a choice.

    WHEN DID YOU CHOOSE?

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  • I'm surprised the African Americans could vote Yes on Prop 8,

    I hope they remember when they where fighting for equal rights. Look at South Africa, Gays and Lesbians can marry and the constitution of South Africa protects same sex couples. It was Nelson Mandela that added that clause. He faught for equal rights and followed that to the end. As a Gay Married, South African, I'm deeply sadden about you lot.

  • The fight blacks went through cannot be compared to what homos think they are going through. It is simply not the same and as a black person I am offended that you would even try to go that route. You cannot change your race, however you can seek help for homosexuality. There is no excuse for the perversion of homosexuality. None at all.

  • lol im starting a prop to bring back jim crow laws... i think we should all vote for that!

  • @montfalkon let me guess...angry because blacks did something against you and now you are racist because we prevented you from your gay marriage?

  • @Enigmafly13 As a matter of fact, yes... i dont understand how a group of peopel who have been marginalized ,mistreated, and denied their human rights, would turn around and do the same thing to other people

  • @montfalkon its totally a Jim Crow law. Any black who votes yes on this is a moron who forgets their own history. You are a DISGRACE to all blacks if you vote yes on prop 8.

  • @montfalkon not cool bro

  • @montfalkon good irony

  • Eric Massa to retire amid allegations he sexually harassed a male staffer

  • Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) will not seek reelection after only one term in office.

    According to several House aides on both sides of the aisle the House Ethics Committee has been informed of allegations that Massa, who is married with two children, sexually harassed a male staffer.

  • 16. Q. What was its impact?

    A. "He tries to cover the basic doctrines of the church. And in so doing, in putting this down in a catechistic form, he helps formalize, to a large measure, Latter-day Saint doctrine," Alford said.

  • its an agenda, the mormon cult preaches about how to "love thy neighbor" and that everyone is created equal

    then illegally support prop h8

  • I hate it when people try to equate a homosexuals plight to the black man. Black folk were BORN black. Homosexuals are not BORN gay. You cannot look at a baby and say,"That baby is homosexual." Stop the comparisons PLEASE.

  • dantej32

    That's not the point.

    Dude Jodie Foster marrying her girlfriend is not going to kill you.

  • @yak6ex That is the point. Otherwise images from the civil rights era would not have been displayed. Right? What does Rosa Parks have to do with gay marriage? What does black folk sitting at the lunch counter have to do with it? No, that is EXACTLY the point.

  • /watch?v=GoIlHTIq8BQ&feature=r­elated

    Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP (national association for the advancement of colored people) explains that here as he supports gay marriage.

  • @RichieY0Rampage I do not care what he says as it pertains to thet thread. I am stating about this one. Gays were not hanged and none went to prison when everyone knew who did it. GAYS never sat in the back of the bus. gays never were disallowed the right to vote or or firehosed. So why the images if they are not trying to equate.

  • Actually, gays have been hanged, and united states criminalized gay sex. But you're right that they never had to sit in the back of the bus. That's exactly the point, black people should be happy that the minority isn't being treated as harshly as they were and that the gays are inspired so much by the black movement. But the point is that the christian blacks are using the bible to justify their prejudices, and the bible was used to endorse slavery, and the ban on interracial marriage.

  • that's because sexual orientation is inside, it's called genetics.

  • so then you aren't born straight then

  • @idaman12345 You can look at a Black baby and can tell that it is BLACK. You can at a baby of any race, but you can't tell if it is homosexual. See my point? I thought that I made it clear in the statement that you responded to.

  • @dantej32 Babies aren't sexual beings at all. They just aren't developed, so comparing their state to sexually to the state of their skin is a red-herring, IE: the warped notion of a fundamentally ignorant boy-child. Keep up that education, you need it, K?

  • @kern0099 so people are not born homosexual and that was the point

  • lmao i love the hypocrisy here! the same arguments were used against interracial marriage. this is incredible hahaha HYPROCRISY AT IT'S FINEST. mildred loving, the woman who ended the ban on interracial marriage, is FOR gay marriage because she is not a hypocrite. <3 love is love.

  • @RichieY0Rampage I couldn't agree more! Bigotry is bigotry, no matter the color of the skin, the cultural differences, the religious beliefs, etc...

    To the bigots out their who voted against this, how does it feel to be on the other side?

  • "When [Jennings] founded GLSEN, his idea of a safe school was one that pushed a radical homosexual agenda by even encouraging first and second-graders to engage in homosexual activity," Staver said. "So I think that's the impetus behind this bill. We have an administration that wants to push a radical social agenda."

  • Jennings came under fire in September after acknowledging he should have better handled an incident in 1988 when he was a teacher and failed to report that a boy he believed was 15 years old told him he was having sex with an older man. (Since that time, the former student, referred to as "Brewster," has revealed he was 16 years old, the age of consent in Massachusetts, at the time of the incident.)

  • Actually, the picture is clouded by practicalities. Is the restaurant supplying condoms? What about the health risks of body fluids? And who's cleaning up?

    "We've always had little trysts in our bathrooms," says chef/co-owner Donna Dooher, pointing to lingering weekday lunches as a popular time. "We're taking it to the next level on Valentine's weekend."

  • "Mildred's Temple Kitchen is inviting customers to have sex in its bathrooms."

    --gays have been doing that forever

  • Obama stated his opposition to prop 8.

    nice try using his image.

  • whether or NOT you oppose Prop 8.

    Marriage should STILL be between a man and a woman!

  • Coretta King said the civil rights leader's memory demanded a strong stand for GLBT rights. "Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people," she said. Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery & Selma, in Albany, GA, and St. Augustine, FL, and many other campaigns of the civil rights movement,"

  • She said I salute the contributions "of these courageous men and women who fought for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own."

  • It's funny that the same arguments that are being used against marriage equality were used to say that African American's and Whites shouldn't be allowed to marry and therefore President Obama wouldn't have been from a married couple but from a couple living in sin as you would say and also breaking the law.

  • First of all, if you are going to use the quote from Obama saying what he believes marriage is between it would probably be good to actually use the whole quote, when he said, "but" and elaborated more on the topic.

  • My black brothers and sisters lost them damn minds, the people who voted for this stupid law show not get married their selves because they are too blind to see their own hate.

  • Strength of the saints

    A strong base of local leaders buoyed the thousands of converts who joined the Church when the Moodys presided in Haiti (presently, more than 15,000 Church members live in Haiti).

  • "The thing that I find interesting is that we've been home for nine and a half years, and in that time — other than a few roads that have improved — things have not changed in Haiti. In some ways they've gotten worse. Maybe this will bring Haiti to the forefront [of the global conscience]."

  • Thank you....seems irony is still lost on most. But hopefully more black people will ignore the church and do what they know is right....unifying for a common good.

  • The media have dedicated extensive coverage to the massive destruction and desperate living conditions in Haiti following a 7.0 earthquake on Jan. 11, and rightfully so.

    But what was life like in Haiti before the earthquake struck, particularly for the thousands of church members living there?

  • Former Mormon mission presidents reflect on Haiti

  • In recent weeks, opponents began a grass-roots effort to challenge the law indirectly by suggesting New Hampshire's 400 House members and 24 senators aren't representative of the people's wishes. They point out that in the 31 states where voters have had a say, gay marriage has been rejected.

  • They plan to raise the issue at town meetings this spring in hopes of passing nonbinding resolutions that will pressure lawmakers to present them with an amendment that defines marriage. They also hope their effort will help elect anti-gay marriage candidates in November.

  • Gay marriage opponents want the law repealed and also want to change the state constitution to ban the unions. The committee was holding hearings on the two measures, which many observers expect the House to reject when they are brought to the floor in the next few weeks.

  • @omiolo: crazy spammer!

  • Stop Hate, hate Crime against the LGBT Community is still live & well ,this is not helping

  • Even ordinary folks had reason to fear. After Prop 8 passed, gay activists mobbed El Coyote, a restaurant in Los Angeles, calling for a boycott because the owner's daughter, Margorie Christoffersen, had donated $100 in support of the measure

  • @omiolo: more lies. there was no mob, just a peaceful (albeit noisy) protest AND boycott. this is completely LEGAL under our right to free speech, so GET OVER IT.

  • Dozens of businesses -- including hotels, insurance agencies, accounting firms and dentist offices -- were similarly targeted because of their owners' or employees' private donations.

  • @omiolo: free speech in action and completely legal. those people deserved what they got.

  • Not surprisingly, many Prop 8 supporters were bombarded with harassing calls and e-mails. Some lost their jobs, including Scott Eckern, artistic director of the California Musical Theatre in Sacramento, and Richard Raddon, president of the Los Angeles Film Festival. Both resigned after their private donations were publicized and activists threatened to boycott their organizations.

  • @omiolo: everyone knows that harrassment is illegal. neither side should have done it, but BOTH sides did. as for the rest of it, including the men who resigned their jobs?  that's free speech in action and completely legal. stop whining!

  • @omiolo so you want anonymity for harming others in your community like the klan now? I can still see your black hands even with the hood on, klansman.