Again w/ the Mormons? Yup.

We (& The NYT )wanted to remind all & sundry that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon) a still sexist & until recently an overtly racist death-cult, may well have some sexually repressed weasel in a black necktie & short-sleeved white shirt w/ name tag peeping in your window looking for non-Creator intended activity. Just after he or she polls you.

Suggested talking points were equally precise. If initial contact indicated a prospective voter believed God created marriage, the church volunteers were instructed to emphasize that Proposition 8 would restore the definition of marriage God intended. But if a voter indicated human beings created marriage, Script B would roll instead, emphasizing that Proposition 8 was about marriage, not about attacking gay people, and about restoring into law an earlier ban struck down by the State Supreme Court in May.

Sarcastic Move 1: Almighty Holy Gawd: Writer of Dictionaries & Contracts. The Big Bureaucrat in the Sky. Thought that bureaucracy was the enemy w/ real, Gawd-fearing Americans like these. Or, number two: You all must remember the classic of the French cinema, And God Created Marriage, w/Brigitte Bardot? As if a reference to Froggy flicks would change any minds in this battle. But a silver lining of sorts is found, as one of the conservatives admits.

“We could not have this as a battle between people of faith and the gays,” Mr. Schubert said. “That was a losing formula.”

They're now admitting they know they're outnumbered by decent people of all orientations & religions, so it must be, as one egghead or another phrased it, "framed" as not anti-gay. We suppose it's helpful to be a complete moron to buy into that & the "threat to marriage" part.

Oct. 28, Mr. Ashton, the grandson of the former Mormon president David O. McKay, donated $1 million. Mr. Ashton, who made his fortune as co-founder of the WordPerfect Corporation, said he was following his personal beliefs and the direction of the church. “I think it was just our realizing that we heard a number of stories* about members of the church who had worked long hours and lobbied long and hard,” he said in a telephone interview from Orem, Utah. In the end, Protect Marriage estimates, as much as half of the nearly $40 million raised on behalf of the measure was contributed by Mormons. [...] Mr. Ashton described the protests by same-sex marriage advocates as off-putting. “I think that shows colors,” Mr. Ashton said. “By their fruit, ye shall know them.”

We're not typing one word. Could be completely, albeit amazingly, ignorant. *“I think it was just our realizing that we heard a number of stories..." Best self-description of the rightist/religionist "thought process" we've yet read.