"8: The Mormon Proposition" Movie

The thought provoking documentary film "8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION" exposes the significant involvement of the Mormon Church in the California Proposition 8 battle against gay marriage and their decades-long campaign against gay rights.

The release of this informative film is very timely. The closing arguments in the US 9th District Court challenge to Proposition 8, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, concluded yesterday, June 16, 2010. Perry v. Schwarzenegger is widely regarded as a landmark case that will reach the US Supreme Court. Furthermore, on June 9th the California Fair Practices Commission found the Mormon Church guilty of 13 counts of campaign finance violations related to Prop 8.

Please visit Angelika FIlm Center (Houston) for more information and showtimes.


Synopsis:
Director Reed Cowan initially planned on making a documentary about gay teen homelessness and suicide in Utah but soon realized that the homophobia that prompts otherwise loving parents to kick teenagers out of their homes is deep-seated in current Mormon ideology. Cowan, with his fellow filmmakers, experienced first-hand what it was like to grow up gay in Utah in the Mormon faith, then turned their attention to the historic campaign by the Mormon Church to pass Proposition 8 in California believing that it was the cornerstone of an ideology that has worked for decades "to damage gay people and their causes." The film is their emotional outcry to what they found.








More information on the movie and theaters near you:
http://www.mormonproposition.com/

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