We are so pleased to have Matt, Berkeley Ward Bishop from 2008-2013 on our show today! Today’s chapter of American Zion, Showtime, 1995-2012, covers an important part of our Ward’s history, when Prop 8 was voted on in California to ban gay marriage. Matt talks about his experiences being a church leader at the time and provides some excellent inside info. Join us!
Link to our Face in Hat discord server!
YouTube channel! Thanks Eric!
https://www.youtube.com/@FaceinHat
https://www.youtube.com/@FaceinHat/playlists
Dialogue Podcast Network
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism, by Benjamin E. Park
https://www.amazon.com/American-Zion-New-History-Mormonism/dp/1631498657
The rise of the liberal Latter-day Saints and the battle for the future of Mormonism, by Emily Kaplan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/09/27/rise-liberal-latter-day-saints/
4.3 Liberal hair lengths (where we covered that article before)
https://faceinhat.podbean.com/e/43-liberal-hair-lengths/
2008 California Proposition 8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_8
George Hugh Niederauer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hugh_Niederauer
The bit from Matt about $5k donations from stake presidents: this is inside info :)
Props to Obama, Did he help push California’s gay-marriage ban over the top? By Farhad Manjoo
The Root: The Misjudged Black Vote On Gay Marriage, by David Kaufman
https://www.npr.org/2011/03/04/134257733/the-root-the-misjudged-black-vote-on-gay-marriage
Prop 8 Protesting Turns Ugly, by Will Frampton
https://web.archive.org/web/20110608063501/http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=50266
November 2015 policy change
Prop 8: The Musical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_hyT7_Bx9o
"8": A Play about the Fight for Marriage Equality
https://www.youtube.com/live/qlUG8F9uVgM
3.14 Paul, the Oakland Temple, and Pride
https://faceinhat.podbean.com/e/314-paul-the-oakland-temple-and-pride/
