Mixed feelings about Prop 8 and the protests...

I'm a good Mormon girl. I try to obey the commandments as best I can.

But when it comes to Proposition 8 in California, I have some mixed feelings.

Here's why... I have friends who are gay, one of whom is a friend from high school. Why shouldn't they be allowed to make the lifetime commitment to who they want, even if it's someone of the same gender?

However, I understand the Church's stance on it: Marriage is meant to be between a man and a woman. That's what it says in the Bible and the Book of Mormon (not to mention the Proclamation to the World on the family that was brought forth a few months before my baptism). I even got an email from a friend today about her feelings on Prop 8, that marriage is supposed to be between a man and a woman and that's it. Satan is making efforts to destroy the family and if gay marriage is allowed, that would be another step in that direction.

I guess I have some serious thinking, study, prayer, and pondering to do...

Now here's where I'm getting disturbed, I just heard about protests being done at the Oakland and Los Angeles Temples. I may have mixed feelings about the whole thing, but I get offended when our church is being singled out about their stance on it.

That said, I'm heading for my bed.

Slan go foill...