Apple Stands For America And The Mormon Cult Stands For Hatred

A box arrived on Friday and it weighed so little I thought it was a couple of CDs but the mailman announced it was from Apple. Apple! I was a consultant on the development of the iPod after I left Warner Bros and this box must have been some new iteration of the shuffle. But I'm perfectly happy with the shuffles I have and I can't remember how to put new songs on them anyway. So I put the box aside, unopened. Later a friend came over and, seeing the box, asked what I got from Apple. I said he could open it. OMG! It was the new MacBook! I get thicker magazines in the mail! I'm an Apple fanatic and I was over the moon to have gotten this wonderful gift-- just in time for my trip to Mali too.

Anyway, I figured I'd go read up on this thing and figure out what it is exactly so I went to the Apple homepage. The second and third story is about the new MacBook. The first story says No on Prop 8. I was shocked. I recall having read that the Mormons and other homophobic fanatics and hate-mongers are threatening to boycott any companies that dare to support gay families' choices. With that in mind I read the Apple blurb on top of their website:

Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights-- including the right to marry-- should not be affected by their sexual orientation. Apple views this as a civil rights issue, rather than just a political issue, and is therefore speaking out publicly against Proposition 8.

That's more than many Democratic politicians have the balls to do! And $100,000! Good for Steve Jobs!

Today's L.A. Times reported that about $60 million have been raised around Prop 8. I thought the whole hateful effort was just being financed by the Mormon Mafia and their Utah-based theocracy. Turns out that although they're the biggest merchants of hate and bigotry-- around $10 million so far-- they're not alone. And now that they've been exposed and are feeling vulnerable, the Mormon cult leaders are at least giving lip service to tamping down the orgy of hatred and bigotry a little. They claim that they've now stopped the Utah-based homophobic phone banking operation.

And not all are Mormons sticking with the hate-filled religionist cult on this, though their poisonous fake priests have been asking all parishioners to donate. Bruce Bastian is an ex-Mormon who still lives in Utah and is one of the 5 people who donated a million dollars to stop Prop 8. So as evil and Satanic as the Mormon Church is, remember that there are individual Mormons who are still human and not fully sucked into the garbage pseudo-religion. Bastian:

"They're a church and in their name they have the name Jesus Christ. Can you imagine Jesus Christ doing something like this? There is nothing in Jesus' teachings that justifies what the church is doing.

"To me this is the civil rights movement of the 21st century," Bastian said. "How embarrassing is it now to look back at what we did to African Americans in the 19th century."

But it isn't just the Cult of the Latter Day Satanites who are funding the hatred. The murderous war criminal, neo-Nazi Prince family (Blackwater mercenaries) are also major contributors-- giving to both McCain and to Yes on 8-- but having put around $8 million dollars into right-wing anti-gay efforts this year.