Mormons were brutalized for their religious views; that is a historical fact. There is a common history of persecution between Mormons in the 19th century and gays today, on the issue of marriage.

MacAdvisor's allusion may have unfairly generalized lynching and failed to recognize its particular historical context in the South, but I do not think he was belitting blacks or somehow suggesting that history is comical.

You're right at the end -- with all the important issues facing us as Americans today, we cannot afford to splinter off into identity-based interest groups and worry only about the advancement of our own individual causes.

So I hope you will vote NO ON PROP 8 as a civil rights matter.