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To: koan who wrote (255498)	7/9/2014 1:59:37 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542241

That's the official church with prop 8. Are you responsible for invading Iraq? Me neither. As far as I'm aware, Mormons protect their children like no other group I know of. If you know they are slack on pedophiles, please post a LINK. I don't trust your thought processes at all.

To: koan who wrote (255498)	7/9/2014 5:12:53 PM
From: Katelew	Respond to of 542241

Special interest voting is part of democracy: actually it IS democracy. Mormons vote sometimes as a bloc on issues they hold dear. And then other groups push back. And don't let it get your knickers in a knot because the far left/atheist viewpoints are winning. Religiosity and church attendance are declining at an exponential rate. As for Mormons, the week before I left it was announced that my church will close its adoption services program. This is the program one of my daughters adopted 3 children through. This service arranges adoptions for a charge of only 10% of a couple's gross income. So a couple making $100,000 a year would only pay $10,000. Now such a couple will have to pay the standard $30,000 to $50,000 to adopt a child thru a private agency. Obviously this will now preclude poor and lower middle-class families from easily adopting. Why did this happen? Because the Mormon Church was facing a lawsuit from the state of Massachusetts to force the church to arrange adoptions for same sex couples. And the church knew it would probably lose. Massachusetts sued a few years over something it didn't like about Catholic services and Catholic shut down its charitable services in that state. The Mormon church released a public statement different from this, but the truth is that lawsuits are coming. There are millions of people just like you and Epi who think this country would be better off if faith-based organizations cease to exist. Looking at the trendlines, this is likely to happen. This will also mean the loss of billions and billions of dollars worth of charitable services. Only time will tell how all of this sorts itself out. Hopefully government takes up the slack.