LDS Apostle Boyd Packer: Gays are impure and unnatural. Nearly 5k protest.

[WillParkinson]

UTAH: Thousands Protest Anti-Gay Remarks By LDS Leader Boyd Packer

Thousands of protesters gathered in Salt Lake City's Temple Square last night to denounce remarks by LDS Apostle Boyd Packer, who called gay people "impure and unnatural."

Packer’s speech, delivered during the LDS Church’s 180th Semiannual General Conference, hit a nerve, protesters say, because it came after a string of gay teen suicides in the national news. Boys as young as 13 took their own lives after reportedly being bullied by their peers for being gay. On Thursday, protest organizers estimated that 4,500 people ringed the two downtown blocks that make up the LDS Church’s headquarters. Participants wore black, and some carried signs. Lying head to toe or sitting shoulder to shoulder, they encircled Temple Square two times. “Tonight, we are symbolic of all the children who have been killed by messages like Boyd K. Packer’s,” said organizer and Salt Lake City blogger Eric Ethington. “When you hear nothing from but that you are nothing but evil and you need to change the unchangeable nature of yourself, that is only a message kids can take for so long.”

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/10/utah-thousands-protest-anti-gay-remarks.html

[burnsei sensei]

1. This anti-gay venom is poisoning our society.

You cannot draw social cohesion by scapegoating and creating others any more. That is the past, and we must do something different now.
The Mormon Church must be admonished by the people every year that they are encouraging chaos, not creating any kind of order.

[hendo]

2. Another great story from the cult that calls itself the LDS. NT

[joeybee12]

3. Hmmm...last name Packer?

Should his first name be Fudge?

What a POS this cretin is.

[TexasObserver]

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