Protect the Children, Sign Church's Petition to Ban Mormon Marriage

When California's gay marriage legal debate gets tough, the tough get weirder: Universal Free Church has now launched a national petition drive to ban Mormon marriage.

Mary Cristos, leader of the new, St. Louis-based “Free” religious denomination, says the
UFC believes in “religious freedom and religious free speech for
everyone, but religious fascism for no one.”

The church is all about personal freedom in one's own private life, with its lone Commandment stipulating, “At age 18 every UFC member has a libertarian right and duty to
freely do whatever they want when alone or in private assembly with
other consenting adult UFC members.”

“Mormons have every right to hate the idea of gay marriage,” Cristos explains. “They're welcome to find it detestable, abominable, a sin, whatever. That's religious freedom. Mormons also have every right to preach and speak out against gay marriage. That's religious free speech.

“But Mormons don't have the right to force their religious beliefs on everyone else by engineering and paying $20 million for a secular voter initiative that stole the already existing right of gays to marry in California. That's religious fascism.”
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Using tax-exempt wealth and political power to create a secular law
that forces religious beliefs on everyone else is also “evil” and a
violation of the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution's First
Amendment, according to Cristos.

So why outlaw Mormon marriage?
She foists the same reason everyone uses to ban anything in this
country: “to protect the children,” citing the Mormons' “subversive and
un-American beliefs in tax fraud and religious fascism.”

A UFC blog post
explains it would be difficult and expensive to organize a
million-person march on Washington, but if a million
Americans–straight and gay alike–signed their petition over the next
couple months,
it would be just as newsworthy an example of
gay/straight solidarity on this constitutional issue. You can download
the petition here.

This is what the petition says:

Petition to allow gay marriage and ban Mormon marriage

Whereas Mormons illegally spent tens of millions of their tax-exempt
dollars to ensure passage of Proposition 8 in California. Thereby
stealing the existing right of gays and lesbians to marry and forcing
the Mormon's religious definition of marriage on everyone else.

Whereas, despite Mormon lies, gay and lesbian marriage is not a threat to children.

Whereas Mormon marriage is a threat to children because Mormons have
bizarre and delusional beliefs such as magic underwear, and that the
biblical Garden of Eden actually existed somewhere in Missouri! If not
stopped from marriage, Mormons will continue to have children and
indoctrinate them with such bizarre and delusional beliefs.

Whereas Mormon marriage is also a threat to children because Mormons
believe in illegally using tens of millions of their tax-exempt dollars
and the secular political process to force their religious beliefs on
everyone else. Thereby violating tax laws and the “establishment
clause” of the First Amendment. If not stopped from marriage, Mormons
will continue to have children and indoctrinate them with their
subversive and un-American beliefs in tax fraud and religious fascism.

Now therefore I sign this petition calling for a constitutional
amendment to be passed in every state to allow gay marriage and ban
Mormon marriage, in order to protect the children.