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It looks like Utah is joining the long list of states banning marriage between two people of the same sex. I have no doubt that the Church (of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints) has its fingers in this legislation, but I was just reading an interesting post Blurbomat that makes an excellent point.

Even crazier, the Mormons are all about limiting the marital rights of others, even though at one time, certain states passed an extermination order to kill Mormons precisely because of their marital doctrines, amongst other things.

This seems an trenchant observation to me because, as a member of the Church, I am particularly sensitive to its history. I would not want future historians looking back only to find that we never learned from the mistakes of those that persecuted us.

No doubt most, if not all, of my family in Utah is voting for Proposition 3. I hope they have thought about what exactly they are voting for and the motivations driving the legislation.