Food for thought

I've had my head in the proverbial sand lately while working on some pre-holiday projects and the usual... but have gotten occasional emails about the Proposition 8 business in California. A friend has sons living there who experienced firsthand some pretty hostile behaviors against them as LDS church members. Ron was reading an online column tonight by Orson Scott Card and at the end he quoted a letter that has been going around the Internet (after checking out the statistics). It was written by a seminary teacher who noted many of his students had received targeted negativism from others during this dialogue and voting process in California. I thought it was worth quoting below... it was quite interesting...

Well... it won't let me paste it in here... so I'll put in a link for the article. The email I wanted to post is at the end. Hoping this will work...

http://www.mormontimes.com/mormon_voices/orson_scott_card/?linkTrack=mtEmail&id=5002

According to voting statistics, the Mormon vote in California was less than 5 percent of the Yes vote and approximately 2.4 percent of the total Proposition 8 vote. Exit polls indicated 70 percent of black voters supported Proposition 8 and the majority of Latino voters the same. So, it's interesting that there have been rumblings about a boycott of the Utah tourist industry and others have demonstrated outside LDS temples. It would seem that many who call for tolerance, are not so tolerant of the democratic process when it goes against their wishes. It's always difficult to see that, no matter who's doing it... whichever side of an issue.

The old saying that "we become what we hate" is so often demonstrated in history and our own personal lives. Better not to become SO impassioned that all perspective goes out the window.