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"The main focus is going to be going after the Utah brand.We're going to destroy the Utah brand. It is a hate state."

Said blogger John Aravosis, as 3,000 people protesting the Prop 8 vote in California marched in downtown Salt Lake City in Utah.

Church officials are "disturbed" that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was "singled out for speaking up as part of its democratic right in a free election," said LDS spokesman Scott Trotter earlier Friday....

Attacking a religious organization rarely works, said Joe Mathews, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a political think tank in southern California....

"Mormons are unpopular and the church went a long way in diving into this issue," he said. "But it doesn't make long-term strategic sense. You are appealing to religious bigotry and I don't think that's a good idea. You need to convince people of faith that they're not under attack."

Let's characterize more things as hate and then fight hate with hate. What a terrible idea!

UPDATE: CBN reports:

Several churches have been vandalized by apparent supporters of same-sex marriage since the idea was banned in California last week, local police have reported....

Monday in Utah, home to the Mormon church, the windows of five Latter-day Saints wardhouses were shot out with a BB gun. Police, however, did not openly link the damages to Prop 8 supporters.

"A lot of opinion has generated that this is in connection with Prop 8," Layton Utah Police Lt. Quinn Moyes said. "We aren't making that connection yet."

Full post as published by Althouse on November 11, 2008 (boomark / email).