10,000 Strong Gather to Protest the Chruch of LDS
November 13th, 2008Via social networking sites and word of mouth, an estimated 10,000 people gathered Wednesday night at the Mormon Temple near Lincoln Center in New York City to protest last week’s passing of California’s Proposition 8, which outlawed same-sex marriage in the state, and the fact that most of the money for the Yes on Prop 8 campaign came from members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - the Mormons.
Civil rights attorney Norman Siegel said, “The spirit of ACT UP is in the air.”
Banners that lead the march proclaimed, “God Loves Gay Marriage” and “Would Jesus spend tax-free dollars to support hate and injustice?” while chants demanding equality were heard from everywhere.
Some protesters say they were motivated by anger over a religious institution using the ballot process as an attempt to impose religious values in a democracy based on separation of church and state.
Similar demonstrations to denounce Proposition 8 have been held in the last week in California cities like Long Beach, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and in Salt Lake City, where the Mormon church is based.






