1.) For you, What is the MAIN purpose of a church?

2.) In what way did supporting Proposition 8 fulfill that purpose?

To me, the purpose of any church should be to help individuals get onto a spiritual path. Specifically, the purpose is to help individuals think and behave with better morals and ethics; find a purpose for living that transcends pure selfishness; and realize that life is more than the physical world that one perceives with one’s ordinary senses.

If the Morman church encouraged its members to give financial support to Prop 8, it seems to me that they were not fulfilling the main purpose of a church. Their focus was in the wrong direction.

3.) What conduct would qualify as “hateful”? What would a church have to do for you to say that their actions were hateful, devisesive, etc.?

4.) Both of my parents are ministers. From them, I learned the value of loving and accepting others. I didn’t learn this value because my parents told me to do so. I learned it because my parents SHOWED love and acceptance to everyone they met. I wish I could say the same about the majority of people I meet who claim to be in relationship with God or who teach the gospel.

1. Members of the Mormon Church spent millions–not the church.

2. The only right taken away was to use the word marriage. Domestic partners have the same rights as traditional marriage in California.

3. To take a stand for traditional marriage and families does not “promote hatred, fear, and division”.

First of all, I am not a Mormon but an Evangelical Christian.

Second- I am not against same-sex unions–just don't call it marriage

Third- Those in same sex unions already have the same rights as traditional married couples in California so it is not a matter of civil rights.

Fourth- No one I know opposing same-sex marriage hates anyone.