Church Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot (More Hypocrisy)

You know how O.J. Simpson goes to such extraordinary lengths to feign innocence and act like he didn't really kill Nicole and Ron . . ?? I mean - I crack up every time I think about the stupid, bloody, size 12, Bruno Magli shoes. You can pretend all you want but, if you're a murderer, you're a murderer (right ??).

By the same token, the State Church of Utah wants to masquerade as a wise, judicious organization that makes ever-careful P.R. decisions. OH PLEASE !!!!!

Last night, Church security guards accosted two gay men who were walking home from a concert by way of the Church's "Main Street Plaza". The men were holding hands, and one kissed the other on the cheek. The guards accused the men of "inappropriate behavior" and instructed them to leave the private property. The men protested, so the guards forced one of them to the ground and handcuffed him. Salt Lake P.D. soon arrived and cited them for misdemeanor trespassing. In its report on the event, a TV news team showed video of heterosexual couples holding hands and kissing on that same property.

Okay, so let's do the arithmetic on this one. If I were one of those two gay men, I would be calling a civil rights attorney before I had my next meal. What part of S-T-U-P-I-D does the Church not understand? Maybe the whole private property thing prevails here, and the men's case would be weak, but why would the Church even dare to risk the fallout?

It just seems to me that the Church's attitude on certain things is so blinded with hubris, that it regularly forgets to "look" before it "leaps". The word "bonehead" comes to mind.

If I were Utah's gay community, I would get a posse of gay couples to go to the Main Street Plaza on the morrow and have them all hold hands in plain sight. Actually, I'm half tempted to go there with a couple of my wives, and hold hands with both of them (maybe even steal a kiss or two) and see if I can provoke another excessive response from the ecclesiastical plaza police.

Church spokespeople gurgitated the obligatory rationalizations, but I think all they've done is awaken a not-so-sleeping giant!

The question is - did these bruiser guards and their LDS counterparts in the Salt Lake Police Department act on their own righteous initiative, or were they carrying out a tightly-crafted directive from on high? Either way, I predict a storm of reactions which will all bring the Church precisely the opposite outcome from what it wanted.

Here is the double standard - LDS Mormons can be police officers and do the bidding of a Church in their law-enforcement work, while FLDS members have been stripped of their right to serve, because Mark Shurtleff fears that they MAY follow the wishes of their church.