I believe it would be very helpful to the GLBT community if the news story below ran in as many gay and gay-friendly publications as possible.

If the gay press runs with this, I'm pretty sure the mainstream press would pick up on it because of the novel concept. And some fresh national publicity on this issue is exactly what's needed now.

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Universal Free Church calls for petition drive to ban Mormon marriage

Says "religious freedom" is fine, but "religious fascism" is wrong

3/23/09 St. Louis--- The Universal Free Church today released its call for a national petition drive to allow gay marriage and to ban Mormon marriage.

Mary Cristos, leader of the new "Free" religious denomination, said she believes in "religious freedom and religious free speech for everyone, but religious fascism for no one."

"Mormons don't have the right to force their religious beliefs on everyone else by engineering and paying for a secular voter initiative that stole the already existing right of gays to marry in California. That's religious fascism." said Cristos.

"Any time you use the tax-exempt wealth and political power of America's religious majority to create any secular law that forces any religious belief on everyone else, that's religious fascism. It's evil, and it violates the 'establishment clause' of the First Amendment."

Cristos said Mormon marriage should be banned "to protect the children" and because of Mormons' "subversive and un-American beliefs in tax fraud and religious fascism."

The full story, including a sample petition, is online at http://UniversalFreeChurch.org.

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