Hugh Hewitt Goes to Bat for Mormons

At Hewitt's blog: "Same Sex Marriage Backers Target Mormons," noting that Mormons rather than Catholics are taking the heat because there is no apparent downside to publicly attacking Mormons. More ugly details at the Article VI Blog. Hewitt concludes:

Any similar attempt to intimidate and threaten a minority population in the United States would be instantly and roundly denounced, hounded by the MSM, and the cause they espoused would rightly suffer. The backers of same sex marriage who are working to defeat Prop 8 should condemn these extremists and assure the voting public that they are not connected with the No on 8 campaign.

Other blogs commenting on this story:

• "Prop 8 opponents target Mormons for smear campaign," at M-Star.
• "Targeting Mormons on Proposition 8," at ASA.

Comments

[mike d.]

I guess we assumed there was no apparent downside to publicly attacking homosexuals.

[Dave]

Mike D., I don't recall the Church ever publicly attacking homosexuals.

[mondo cool]

Dave:
If you disagree, you're an opponent. If you disagree publicly, you attack.

Didn't you know?

[Robert]

Perhaps Mormons should be more concerned about the Parental Notification initiative? Also it's fair to say that some Evangelicals are skeptical of "help" from the LDS Church. See http://www.baytzim.com/ for example

[JimD]

I'm not convinced that the site Robert posts to is a bona fide Evangelical site. For one thing, "baytzim" is apparently a Hebrew word for what we would call "cajones".

[mike d.]

Mike D., I don't recall the Church ever publicly attacking homosexuals.

It's not a stretch to think that a lot of homosexuals view the church's vigorous moral and financial support of an amendment to strip them of their right to marriage (even if they've only had it for a few months) as an attack on them.

[Dan]

Even if the church were not "attacking" them, they side with religions and groups that have quite vociferously attacked gays. It's not hard to put two and two together.