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Reid Criticizes Mormon Church for Proposition 8 Support | ||
2009-10-14 | ||
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the country's most powerful Mormon politician, criticized his own church during a meeting with gay-rights activists, reportedly scolding Mormon leaders for supporting the ban on same-sex marriage in California.
One participant told the newspaper that Reid said the decision by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to support the successful Proposition 8 ballot measure in California last year was a "waste of church resources and good will." Another said Reid made clear that he "felt it was harmful for the church to focus on such a divisive issue." Though the church fought to support Proposition 8, with money and volunteers, just as it has fought other moves to legalize same-sex marriage, it is rare for the Nevada Democrat to comment on his own church's political activity. Reid supported the gay rights march over the weekend.
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Posted by:Fred |
#11 Since most Americans are unlikely to get Medicare or Social Security when the time comes perhaps the voters could yank some of the House and Senate's retirement perks. |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2009-10-14 23:18 |
#10 No term limits, and no rubric for when he stopped "working for it." On the lifelong public gravy train express followed by lucrative book deals followed by the mother of all phuckovahs--the public pension and bed and dinner reservations in an underground nuke fallout bunker in the Appalachians, IIRC, in the event of a nuclear war? |
Posted by: GirlThursday 2009-10-14 16:51 |
#9 No great loss if he loses his seat. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2009-10-14 16:21 |
#8 My guess is Harry knows he wont regain his seat and he's trying to secure future speech engagements and book sales. |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2009-10-14 15:37 |
#7 What about a seperation of State and Church? |
Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2009-10-14 12:43 |
#6 Keep talking, Harry. |
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-10-14 11:31 |
#5 So it is all right for a politician to attack a religion - even his own. But let a religion attack a politician - especially a Democrat - and watch people start calling for it to lose its tax-exempt status. Whatever happened to the separation of church and state? |
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2009-10-14 07:22 |
#4 been on the job too long |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-10-14 03:11 |
#3 I know that burning at the stake is way too much to hope for in Dingy Harry's case, but does the LDS church at least do excommunications? |
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2009-10-14 01:47 |
#2 That "Beehive" symbol has meaning. |
Posted by: mojo 2009-10-14 01:42 |
#1 Reid's Waterloo - NV 2nd largest Mormon state outside of Utah. Hit the wrong people Harry. Kiss you seat GOODBYE. |
Posted by: Gloluger the Great5876 2009-10-14 00:27 |