Mormons should mind their OWN business. If they did, they wouldn't be THE state with 2-times the use of anti-depressant drugs! Never mind keeping up with the Smiths, and going into foreclosure soon after they do. Regain your own mind, leave 'the church' and live a decent life for yourselves...

Hey Afterward - better recheck that information. It doesn't include baptism for the dead and is only counting LIVING members. If your statement was correct, which it isn't, the church membership would be in the billions.

Why doesn't the church put time and money into bettering the lifestyle of those who are unable to obtain jobs and provide for themselves and their families financially rather than spend time and money arguing a difference of an opinion when in reality, Western society is opening up to gay marriages everywhere. Who cares. Seriously. It does not affect the members of the church. It's not their business what other people do with their lives unless it's affecting them directly or indirectly. It's sad that this issue is far more prioritized for the church than say global issues or the US's financially unsound economy. But I guess it's just like any other corporate business.

"We have always held that opinion." ? really? I'll bet Mitt Romney (or any other defender of "The Faith of My Fathers") $10,000 he can't answer this question honestly, "How do you reconcile Joseph Smith and Brigham Young's (well documented) practice of polyandry (marrying other men's wives) with D&C 132:61-63, which clearly condemns polyandry as adultery?" Smith and Young's practice of Polyandry violated that 'Law of the Priesthood' (D&C 132:61-63) in about 8 different ways, not to mention the fact it violates the 10 commandments in 2 different ways and the sacred vow of marriage between a man and his wife. http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/132.58-66?lang=eng http://josephsmith.net/josephsmith/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=031f001cfb340010VgnVCM1000001f5e340aRCRD&locale=0 claims Joseph and Emma based their marriage on the gospel of Christ, an example to us all, but http://josephsmith.net/josephsmith/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=031f001cfb340010VgnVCM1000001f5e340aRCRD&locale=0 proves he married women who were already married, like Zina Huntington Jacobs, http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/individual_record.asp?recid=7106574&lds=0&frompage=0 http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/05-ZinaHuntingtonJacobs.htm Who married Brigham Young and had a child with him, while she was still married to her original husband, poor Henry Jacobs, who finally gave up hope of having his wife, Zina, all to himself. Thanks to the adulterous so-called "Prophets" who stole her from him, twice.

The purpose of the courts is to protect the rights of minorities when the popular vote will not. Duh.

Once again.. in our REPUBLIC.. there are THREE branches of government. The Judicial branch was given the distinct constitutional duty to make sure that no majority usurps civil rights from ANY minority. I'm sick of LD$, Inc. crying foul, when they don't accuse themselves of the same bollocks when they stick their noses down the throats of EVERY Utahn when they dictate how legislators vote, and how LDS judges rule. The judicial branch is doing exactly what it was intended to do.

Yuh.....thanks Mormons. Like the general public has ALWAYS been so good at "deciding crucial social issues." (!!) PS: They should comfort themselves that Judge Smith, Mormon and Brigham Young University grad, wrote the sole dissent to the ruling....so their desire to keep Church and State welded together was represented by one of their own.

tarzan1234, there is a difference between voting to continue with marriage and Domestic Partnership, which have the same benifits and legal protection, the way they are and to vote to decide Homosexuals are all appart of a cult and shouldnt even be allowed to have relationships or practice they way they feel at all. (Which is not how I feel at all, as I have mentioned I have many Homosexual friends and a few relatives and love them just as much. And to be honest most of them voted for marriage to stay between a man and a women.)

side not, A California domestic partnership is a legal relationship available to same-sex couples, and to certain opposite-sex couples in which at least one party is at least 62 years of age. It affords the couple "the same rights, protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law..." as married spouses. So what legal rights and benifits are being taken away. I would be mad also if "Married" Couples had more rights, benifits, and privelages as a Domestic Partnership. I have nothing against Same Sex relationships and I have friends that are Homosexual and I care about them just as much as my heterosexual friends.

Hey afterwards... Did you know that where ever you are getting your facts from are wrong because the statistics the church keeps on its growth are only on living members.