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Originally Posted by creekster
Are you sure about that? Do you ever go to the temple?
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I don't know what you are suggesting here.
View this from the perspective of protestors. This is what they see:
The Mormon church making public statements about Prop 8 and spurring its members to take action;
Huge donations from church members in support of Prop 8;
Members showing up at their doors (2 at a time, like the missionaries), asking people to support Prop 8;
Members calling them on their phones asking for support for Prop 8;
News reports that the church will ask members throughout the US to support Prop 8.
The church and its members begin to very much appear like a monolithic voting bloc on Prop 8, and it is very easy to see how they then assume that people attending the temple (which is viewed as the Mormon Mecca, so to speak), are participating in Prop 8 political movements. So the protestors target those individuals entering the temple, while also making a statement directed to the broader public outside of the temple that the Mormon involvement is inappropriate/incorrect.
I see this as a logical response to the church's actions. The church can hardly get this involved in political affairs and then claim that they are exempt from political speech directed at the church or its members in retribution.