http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/…../c/…

“Months before the first ads would run on Proposition 8, San Francisco Catholic Archbishop George Niederauer reached out to a group he knew well, Mormons.

Niederauer had made critical inroads into improving Catholic-Mormon relations while he was Bishop of Salt Lake City for 11 years. And now he asked them for help on Prop. 8, the ballot measure that sought to ban same-sex marriages in California.”

I say some Catholic parishes need some picketing too.

Now I’m as mad as the next guy about this horrible mandate, however, I have to say, I’m pretty pissed at our side for taking things for granted and underorganizing at the outset. We allowed the other side to get their message out first to people who could have been our allies. All these protests are kinda shutting the barn door after the horse has escaped.

I feel like everyone in San Fran and WeHo are so ghettoized that they never dreamed their rights were threatened. (I had people calling me at the No on 8 office asking when the victory party was being held, but they said they didn’t have time to come in to phone bank)

The legal case against Prop. 8 is stronger than a lot of the stories on it acknowledge. Here is some of the legal background.

i actually pity her, el coyote, and the employees.

i could understand a personal or word-of-mouth boycott, but this seems extreme.

are we going to track down the other 400,000 hundred-dollar-donating mormon’s and boycott where they work too?

it is not possible or efficient and seems mobbish.

we should stick to boycotting businesses that donated money, not businesses that hire donating mormons.

this was done to us by the Church of LDS, not this poor dumb woman or the guy that washes dishes and is happy to have a job in this economy.

i dont think LDS cares if el coyote goes belly up or if the gays and latinos working there loose their job.

Let me speak to you REAL slowly.

Should you get divorced,

who would perform that?

Your priest?

Your Rabbi?

WISE UP!!!!

what about the employee$ -

Gay and straight that have worked there for many many years?

As a business person responsible for those employees, she should have been thinking about them before she chose to support discrimination against not only her customers but as you have pointed out, some of those employees. The employees should organize and call for her to resign. The aunt that started the business must be spinning in her grave right about now.

I am sick at heart that I have offended anyone in the gay community…you are treasured to me…

Honestly, I think this is a form of apology. She recognizes that her action offended people. She didn’t weasel out and say IF I offended anyone.

I do believe the gay community is “treasured” to her. Our $20/$50/$100s are all treasure to her and her family. But I don’t think that was an apology. I think she only regrets that this could cost her business.