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Home Front: Politix
Reid Criticizes Mormon Church for Proposition 8 Support
2009-10-14
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the country's most powerful Mormon politician, criticized his own church during a meeting with gay-rights activists, reportedly scolding Mormon leaders for supporting the ban on same-sex marriage in California.

Reid said the decision by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to support the successful Proposition 8 ballot measure in California last year was a "waste of church resources and good will."
The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Reid brought up the topic last week during a meeting in his office with organizers of the National Equality March, held over the weekend in Washington, D.C.

One participant told the newspaper that Reid said the decision by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to support the successful Proposition 8 ballot measure in California last year was a "waste of church resources and good will." Another said Reid made clear that he "felt it was harmful for the church to focus on such a divisive issue."

Though the church fought to support Proposition 8, with money and volunteers, just as it has fought other moves to legalize same-sex marriage, it is rare for the Nevada Democrat to comment on his own church's political activity. Reid supported the gay rights march over the weekend.
Getting desperate, is he?
Posted by:Fred

#11  Since most Americans are unlikely to get Medicare or Social Security when the time comes perhaps the voters could yank some of the House and Senate's retirement perks.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2009-10-14 23:18  

#10   No term limits, and no rubric for when he stopped "working for it."

On the lifelong public gravy train express followed by lucrative book deals followed by the mother of all phuckovahs--the public pension and bed and dinner reservations in an underground nuke fallout bunker in the Appalachians, IIRC, in the event of a nuclear war?

Posted by: GirlThursday   2009-10-14 16:51  

#9  No great loss if he loses his seat.
Posted by: JohnQC   2009-10-14 16:21  

#8  My guess is Harry knows he wont regain his seat and he's trying to secure future speech engagements and book sales.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2009-10-14 15:37  

#7  What about a seperation of State and Church?
Posted by: whitecollar redneck   2009-10-14 12:43  

#6  Keep talking, Harry.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2009-10-14 11:31  

#5  So it is all right for a politician to attack a religion - even his own. But let a religion attack a politician - especially a Democrat - and watch people start calling for it to lose its tax-exempt status.
Whatever happened to the separation of church and state?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2009-10-14 07:22  

#4  been on the job too long
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-10-14 03:11  

#3  I know that burning at the stake is way too much to hope for in Dingy Harry's case, but does the LDS church at least do excommunications?
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo)   2009-10-14 01:47  

#2  That "Beehive" symbol has meaning.
Posted by: mojo   2009-10-14 01:42  

#1  Reid's Waterloo - NV 2nd largest Mormon state outside of Utah. Hit the wrong people Harry. Kiss you seat GOODBYE.
Posted by: Gloluger the Great5876   2009-10-14 00:27  

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