8: The Mormon Proposition |  | Director: Reed Cowan
Actor: Dustin Lance Black
Studio: WOLFE VIDEO
Category: DVD
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Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Running Time: 80 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 754703763464
UPC: 754703763464
EAN: 0754703763464
ASIN: B003JLL2XQ
Theatrical Release Date: 2010
Release Date: July 13, 2010
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Studio: Wolfe Video Release Date: 07/13/2010 Run time: 80 minutes
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 NOH8 - Required Viewing... September 6, 2010
J. Sherrard (California)
Simply required viewing for anyone interested in the truth behind the Mormon church's involvement in the passage of Prop-8. Any reasonably intelligent adult who would participate in or contribute to any religious institution which behaves in this manner has simply moved beyond the reach of reason. They are deserving of criticism, scorn and ridicule. Those who claim a right to religious tolerance ought not wield their personal belief system as a political weapon in an attempt to restrict the social rights of others. Anyone who would claim the right to marry the person of their choosing while denying the same right to others is simply a hypocrite.
A VERY DAMNING ACCOUNT... September 1, 2010
B. C. Whitcomb (Mad Cow, Canada)
Much has been made of the fact that organized religion in America willfully engages in political activities and fundraising. The IRS clearly says that such activities by a tax-exempt religions are illegal. Such activities can result in the removal of tax-exempt status. It is interesting about this documentary's comment on the Mormon church is that they engage in discrimination and persecution of gays and lesbians; while, and Mormon history proves this, they have endured decades of discrimination, persecution, and genocide by those who opposed them. Ultimately, this excellent documentary pulls the cloth off the Mormon church and reveal it for what it is...a hateful and disgusting cult.
enough is enough - Equal marriage now! August 13, 2010
John Frame (Brisbane, Queensland Australia)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This film will do good wherever it is viewed in the world.
In 2004 Australia's conservative dominated federal government, sadly with the full support of the "liberal" opposing party, marched hand in the shadow of George W Bush by amending the Marriage Act to specifically exclude same sex couples (marriage is not a state matter here).
Six years later, with a change of governing party, there's at least a possibility of enacting marriage equality, but some activists are being complicit in their own persecution by suggesting they might accept civil unions, rather than fight for marriage equality. I challenge them, and any rational person, to watch this film and yet fail to realise that marriage equality is a necessity as an option for all - not a pipe dream, nor a nicety.
While the law defines that we deserve discrimination, the Churches who hate us will continue to feel vindicated in active oppression, and too many youth will be rejected, or feel rejected, will self-harm or suicide, as a direct result.
"8: The Mormon Proposition" affirms that it's a case of you're either on the side of equality, which includes equality in marriage rights, or you're on the side of the bigots. I believe that there's no middle ground. After watching this DVD I was fired up enough to feel like taking to the streets in protest - in the suburbs in the middle of the night. My mind is made up, enough is enough - Equal marriage now!
 This sort of religious defamation belongs in an earlier century August 9, 2010
Hugh W. Mcharry (Havana, Illinois)
2 out of 13 found this review helpful
This poorly made movie is a composite of hateful misrepresentations and distortions of the beliefs and practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is intended to malign a religious minority rather than to explain or inform viewers about why they would come forth to defend democracy.
Perhaps its one contribution is in exposing the hate and anti-Christian bigotry that lie at the base of the homosexual marriage movement. Data from throughout the world confirms that the movement has amazingly little to do with anyone 'marrying.' No significant percent of the homosexual population has in any country that allows it.
Equality for Some July 29, 2010
Reeper
2 out of 19 found this review helpful
Prop 8 is not anti-gay, it is pro-marriage.
Who denies the criminal equality with freemen when laws are broken? Is it the freemen who erected laws or the criminal who refuses to obey them? Marriage is a privilege for those who keep God's laws. Not even Mormons can marry in the temple unless they keep God's laws. Equality is not license, it is responsibility.
Marriage is a religious institution protected by law. The secular equivalent is Civil Union. Were government to appropriate wholesale the religious institution of marriage, to dictate to religious organizations who they will and/or cannot marry, then the First Amendment securing the freedom of religion would be abridged.
The Wall separating Church and State is impregnable in only one direction. Freedom of Religion means not having one's tax exempt status threatened for teaching morality or even funding moral movements. The Church has as much right as any other organization to fund the movements it supports. We do not buy this right by paying taxes else it would be no right at all.
The lavender revolution's real beef is not with the LDS church for informing the public of a threat to the religious institution of marriage, but with democracy. Why the revolution believes the religious have no right to vote, no right to freedom of religion, and no right to spend their money as they please seems like persecution to me. Nevertheless, the revolution feels persecuted at every failed attempt to impose its will on the majority.
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