I snagged this from the Adversa--I mean, the Advocate a few minutes ago off Twitter. I've heard these claims made before--if you're Mormon or think you may even ID as Mormon, have Mormon friends, family members, or like Mormons you may need to leave.
Mormons Are the New Black?
By Christopher Mangum
In a speech at Brigham Young University–Idaho on Tuesday, Elder Dallin H. Oaks suggested that Mormons are facing the same type of intimidation that Southern blacks had to endure from Reconstruction to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
Wow no. First off, your church is racist. Next, your church is homophobic *coughcalifornia* Why do white folks just love appropriating the struggles of people of color--struggles they probably caused in the first place? It gets worse:
Mormon temples and wards have been the site of protests following the church’s support and fund-raising for the passage of Proposition 8 in California.
“These incidents of 'violence and intimidation' are not so much anti-religious as anti-democratic," said Oaks, reports The New York Times.
You know what's anti-democratic? Taking away a group's right to marry. Just sayin'.
"In their effect they are like well-known and widely condemned voter-intimidation of blacks in the South that produced corrective federal civil-rights legislation."
...how...what? Are you serious? They're not taking away your rights, you took away theirs! You're the oppressors!
Oaks, a former Utah supreme court justice, is currently a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, a governing body that is second only to the First Presidency in the church’s hierarchy.
Marc Solomon, marriage director for Equality California, an organization that fought to preserve same-sex marriage in the Golden State, believes that the analogy is offensive.
Thanks. Take it away, Marc:
"Blacks were lynched and beaten and denied the right to vote by their government," said Solomon, according to the Associated Press. "To compare that to criticism of Mormon leaders for encouraging people to give vast amounts of money to take away rights of a small minority group is illogical and deeply offensive."
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Niggas is haters, I'm doing deals like the majors
Ice Cream Sneakers, I signed my first skater
So you can pay three and buy yourself some Bapesters
Bulletproof on the t-shirts because they hate us
Dude like Snoop say "Step Ya Game Up"
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D-Class action cuts, tuck your chain up
Liberaci fingers, just hit Lorraine up
Just last week I was out in Aspen
Me and Puff hoppin' off a plane, both us laughin'
A week before that I was out in Italy
Attire heart throbs could not get rid of me
Up in Donatella's crib, me and like ten hoes
Call from the cell phone, give me that enzo (Yessir)
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Okay everybody meet Mr. Me Too
Been two years like I was paddy wagon cruisin'
The streets was yours, ya dunce-cappin' and cazooin'
I was just assuming you'd keep the coke movin'
But I got one question, fuck y'all been doin'?
Pyrex stirrers turned into Cavalli furs
The full length cat, when I wave, the kitty purs
All my niggaz caked up, selling gray and beige dust
Had that money right or end up in a trunk taped up
We don't chase a duck, we only raise the bucks
Peel money rolls 'til our thumbs get the papercuts
Chill retardo, South Beach Gallardo
Teals started up, go brrr like it's Nardo
Women if you love me, please let me know
Tie rags 'round your neck and learn the sets we throw
These are the days of our lives
And I'm sorry to the fans but the crackers weren't playing fair, Jive
I know, I know, yep, yeah you too
Okay we get it, yep, yeah you too
I know, I know, yep, yeah, you too
Okay everybody meet Mr. Me Too
I know what you thinkin' why I call you "Me Too"
Cuz everything I say, I got you sayin' "Me too"
I say I got a benz so you sayin' "Me too"
You hangin' out the window so they can see you
But you ain't hangin' out the window when you in that G2
Or that G3 or G4 like we dudes
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Break down keys into dimes and sell 'em like Gobstoppers
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Best believe it's the Mullener
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Choke on your own spit just as soon as you mention us
Champagne corkes, kicked by Louis sports an'
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Cop the chrome and touch gray component
Mink on the floor, make ya hot don't it?
You don't wanna know what the fuck I spent on it
Tomorrow ain't promised so we live for the moment
