So you know I work at Conservative General Hospital and that many of the RNs I work with are Mormon. In fact, several of my coworkers actively campaigned for Prop 8, going door to door and making phone calls.

I usually have to curb my liberal tongue on the job. But when the topic has come up among those willing to discuss it with me the main reasons they claim to oppose gay marriage are 1> They seem to believe that the law would make it mandatory for their church to perform same sex marriages in their temples and 2> Gay mariage would be taught in public schools.

That, in a nutshell, is what they have a problem with. Or so they say. Personally, I think that's disingenuous at best. If that was the real concern, then they ought to have simply introduced a ballot measure ensuring the rights of *churches* to refuse to conduct mariages that go against their own tenets. (Although, I am pretty sure that the Catholic Church has a legal right to refuse to marry a Protestant like me in their chapel. For that matter, I think the Mormon Church could and would do the same.)

I am also inclined to believe that the notion of gay marriage being taught in public schools is alarmist. I don't imagine for even a minute that public schools want to touch that topic.

But the big, really big problem is that neither of those concerns have any basis in fact. People need to actually READ THE STINKING BALLOT MEASURES FOR THEMSELVES instead of letting TV commercials or the pulpit tell them how to vote.