UPDATED: Gay Marriage Opponents Call For Uprising In Utah
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Source: TPM
CAITLIN MACNEAL – JANUARY 5, 2014, 4:30 PM EST
The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association on Saturday organized a meeting in Highland, Utah to call for an uprising and to express their opposition to same-sex marriage in Utah, Fox 13 Now Salt Lake City reported.
"The people of Utah have rights, too, not just the homosexuals. The homosexuals are shoving their agenda down our throats," Former Graham County, Ariz., Sheriff Richard Mack said at the meeting.
A federal judge in December struck down Utah's ban on same-sex marriage, and courts subsequently denied the state's request for a temporary stay, which would keep counties from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples while the state appeals the ruling.
By the third stay denial, most counties in Utah were issuing licenses to all couples.
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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/utah-same-sex-marriage-opponents-call-for-uprising
UPDATE:
Thanks OldRedNeck
for this info at comment 12, below:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014689559#post12
Who is the "Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association?"
Looks like another rightwing group that is convinced the nation is in trouble and only they can save us.
http://cspoa.org/about/message-from-mack/
From their website:
"46 Anti-American US Senators vote for the UN Gun Control Treaty"
"State sovereignty under attack"
"List of sheriffs and peace officers who say 'No' to Obama gun control"
"CSPOA being used to stop Obamacare"
The CEO (and possibly the only member) has an online store where you can buy a copy of his book: "The County Sheriff: America's Last Hope"
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So there is a difference between "The people of Utah" and "homosexuals"? This assumes that if you are homosexual you are not "people" of Utah. How absurd.
Looks like another rightwing group that is convinced the nation is in trouble and only they can save us.
http://cspoa.org/about/message-from-mack/
From their website:
"46 Anti-American US Senators vote for the UN Gun Control Treaty"
"State sovereignty under attack"
"List of sheriffs and peace officers who say 'No' to Obama gun control"
"CSPOA being used to stop Obamacare"
The CEO (and possibly the only member) has an online store where you can buy a copy of his book: "The County Sheriff: America's Last Hope"
Rosewood massacre
A black and white photograph of ashes from a burned building with several people standing nearby; trees in the distance
The remains of Sarah Carrier's house where two blacks and two whites were killed in Rosewood in January 1923
The Rosewood massacre was a violent, racially motivated conflict that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida, United States. At least six blacks and two whites were killed, and the town of Rosewood was abandoned and destroyed in what contemporary news reports characterized as a race riot. Racial disturbances were common during the early 20th century in the United States, reflecting the nation's rapid social changes. Florida had an especially high number of lynchings in the years before the massacre, including the well-publicized Perry race riot where a black man had been burned at the stake in December 1922.
Rosewood was a quiet, primarily black, self-sufficient whistle stop on the Seaboard Air Line Railway. Spurred by unsupported accusations that a white woman in nearby Sumner had been beaten and possibly raped by a black drifter, white men from nearby towns lynched a Rosewood resident. When black citizens defended themselves against further attack, several hundred whites combed the countryside hunting for black people and burned almost every structure in Rosewood. Survivors hid for several days in nearby swamps and were evacuated by train and car to larger towns. Although state and local authorities were aware of the violence, they made no arrests for the activities in Rosewood. The town was abandoned by black residents during the attacks. None ever returned.
Although the rioting was widely reported around the country, few official records documented the event. Survivors, their descendants, and the perpetrators remained silent about Rosewood for decades. Sixty years after the rioting, the story of Rosewood was revived in major media when several journalists covered it in the early 1980s. Survivors and their descendants organized to sue the state for having failed to protect them. In 1993, the Florida Legislature commissioned a report on the events. As a result of the findings, Florida became the first U.S. state to compensate survivors and their descendants for damages incurred because of racial violence. The massacre was the subject of a 1997 film directed by John Singleton. In 2004, the state designated the site of Rosewood as a Florida Heritage Landmark.
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when people staged uprisings about civil rights, democracy, equal pay, etc? Today, some people think that the worst thing that can happen in this country is for two people (of the same sex) to be able to enter into a marital relationship! Man the barricades, folks!!! 
- The use of such vivid verbiage -- we should watch this guy. That line has future scandal written all over it.
K&R
that 7:45 - 8:00pm time slot is just the worst thing to happen in Utah!! I'm sure the prophets and saints are constantly in utter turmoil!
- And that's weekdays! And they get to go to bed at 10:00 PM! And they have kids!!! How crazy it that!?!?! It's unpossible!!!!
This must be what you call a ''casual'' gay agenda.....
Funny how all of a sudden there are gay people living in Salt Lick City!! Like they just suddenly appeared one Halloween night and cast evil spells on the judges and POW, gay marriages are happening against the will of the church, right there in Temple Square!! O.M.G.!!!
And these gays have schedules and children? Only certain people are allowed to do that! And they had better belong to the favored club, no, wait, that's not allowed. And they have these evil magical powers to destroy a hetero marriage in fifteen minutes!!! Oh dear, pretty soon it's cats and dogs living together and, and... Oh, the end is near!
Go get your guns and get down to the capitol and start threatening to shoot judges and lawmakers.
Please do this and see what happens. I am sure that the government will fall all over itself to meet your demands.
Time for you people to put up or shut up. I, for one, am sick of the whining and crying and empty threats.
The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association on Saturday organized a meeting in Highland, Utah to call for an uprising and to express their opposition to same-sex marriage in Utah,
