Obscanity: You'll know it when you see it

I find it fascinating that the comments on this eloquent post, and on so many others I’ve seen around the Internet, point to the black community and try to claim that they are responsible for Prop 8’s passage, as if to somehow absolve the Mormon church of its role in this campaign. Even that ridiculous blonde lady who keeps smirking on TV (she’s Mormon too) won’t shut up about the black voters, the black voters. But the black voters only constituted 10% of the entire voting population in CA. If you look at the monetary contributions to Yes on 8, an estimated 75-80% of the money raised came from Mormon wallets. So it’s hardly fair for Mormons to say, “Well, don’t blame us – go protest at the black church,” as I have seen on many websites with articles about the current protests. The black churches didn’t contribute millions of dollars, or fly thousands of people into the state to phone bank and go door to door and take taxis around the city to put up Yes on 8 signs. The Mormon Church did.

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