Unintended effects of LDS Church's Prop 8 involvement

[Goatnapper'96]

Originally Posted by CardiacCoug

In 1998 when I was living in Missouri, there was a proposed amendment to the Missouri constitution to expand riverboat gambling to artificial "lakes" (so-called boats-in-moats). The Church told members to campaign and vote against it.

However, I don't think the campaign against this amendment was nearly as vigorous as against Prop 8 and I think the amendment passed easily.

Is that because of the Church or because the issue of gay marriage is far more emotional and mobilizing to mormons than riverboard gambling in lakes?

I just think to many mormons the issue turned many into a powderkeg from the get go, once the Brethren threw in the match with the indicators of the Godhead's support of their cause and they just went to town.