Federal judge may have legalized same sex marriage in Utah.

[TaraJo]

I wonder how long it will take the average opponent of gay marriage in these states to realize that granting other people equal rights and protection under the law will not impinge on their lives in the slightest. The sky won't fall. The world will go on, and all but the most hateful anti-gay bigots will find something else to worry about.

That's the other really interesting thing about this happening in Utah. Mormons have a very racist history. Up until 1978, black people (or other dark skinned minorities, I would assume) weren't eligible for priesthood and their book of Mormon still has verses that are VERY racist. But now they're just kinda sweeping that racism under the rug. If you question them on it directly, they won't deny it, but they generally just try to avoid talkin about it.

And in another 20-30 years, when the world overwhelmingly accepts GLBT people, even religions accept gay people, the Mormons will probably sweep their homophobia under the rug. Problem is, the space under that rug is getting pretty crowded; I mean, they already have to sweep their racism under there and the polygamy, too.

To their credit, at least they aren't claiming they were fighting for racial equality. Not that I know of, anyway.