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Added: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:00:00 UTC

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SALT LAKE CITY - The anti-Mormon backlash against Proposition 8 supporters is analogous to the treatment of Southern blacks during the civil rights movement, said a high-ranking leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Tuesday. Elder Dallin H. Oaks, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, a church governing body, made the analogy during a speech delivered at Brigham Young University-Idaho, a church sponsored institution.

The LDS apostle did say that anti-Mormon incidents after Proposition 8 are not as serious as discrimination in the South, but defended the analogy.

"People who asserted one position on an election in California were punished," said Oaks. "Some of them were fired from their jobs, some had their places of worship desecrated with vandalism."

The analogy by Oaks comes after the Church's involvement in the pro-Proposition 8 coalition in California. Many Church members in the state faced persecution from Proposition 8 supporters in the workforce as well as through several acts of vandalism on LDS meetinghouses in the area.
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