Mormon, Comparing Himself to Gandhi, Vows to Continue Hunger Strike Until Utah Stops Allowing Gay Marriage

Good for him! Stand up for your right to tell others what to do! You go ahead and hold your breath until you turn blue, that will teach the rest of us to bow down to your superior leadership abilities.

I’ll think of him when I’m eating my double bacon cheeseburger tonight.

The thing I wonder about this is the mental stability of the guy. I mean according to his self reporting he lost 25 pounds over 12 days so far and that seems impossible to me. The amount of work required to burn off 7000 calories a day seems impossible. Of course when he compares gay people to nazis we can also know he is not all there. That irks me because I hear that argument very often. That if gay people were in charge we would have no problem killing those that are anti-gay.

I have argued in the past that it would be super tempting to discriminate against conservative christians if they ever became a minority and gays were a majority because of the centuries of discrimination, but I maintain that I would overcome the temptation to be a dick to them.

Would this genius starve himself to death to deny others the right to get a divorce or to eat shellfish just like it says in the bible?

I hope this man can overcome his hatred and hope he doesn’t kill himself over his incredibly stupid cause.

I will eat an extra sandwich for you brother Meacham, and a milk shake and fries.

Generally I don’t want to say that it is good when another person dies. But the hard truth is that some people will be missed more than others.

I can’t wait to read this guy’s obituary in a week or two. I’ll even write it myself.

“This man, whose life and death were dedicated to the premise that God hates faggots, left behind a corpse so lean and frail so as to be unfit to even serve as kindling. Cruelty, thy name is irony.”

I must admit my wife, a true believer and great baker, is a master at what’s inside the ovens.

Huh… Dad got moved to Hill AFB when I was five, and I found out that anyone who wasn’t Mormon was “A Devil Worshiper”. So he’s comparing himself to someone his religion teaches is a “Devil Worshiper”? Wow. Oh, well. One starves themselves to death, it’s a little more depth in the gene pool.

So either he gives up, we point and laugh, and life goes on; or he succeeds, one less nutjob on the planet, BUT the anti-freedom crowd gets their first (self-appointed) martyr. Tough choice.

Also, is anyone monitoring him? I can scarcely believe he’d think that we would just take him at his word that he’s not eating. I want daily weigh-ins!

Is it irony if he accuses gays as people who “…would not hesitate to march people of faith into ovens.” – In other words, genocide – yet the only person doing bodily harm to him is himself?

Uh . . . http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/utah-same-sex-marriage-opponents-call-for-uprising

Matthew 10:34

That is the most elegant display of tact I have ever seen. Well done.

And if he ends his hunger strike, what will he say? He made his point, that we should all have the right to hate? He’s correct, we have that right. Society however, will move on.

Plot twist: “she” [on the right] has a penis.
Decides he’s OK with it, has a burger and coffee.

I can only hope more follow this man’s brave course of action. It’s always best when loose ends tie themselves up.

People never die that way. Not in democracy. He will just fade away back into the oblivion from which he came from. That’s his 5 to 15 minutes of fame. I think it is far more ridiculous when somebody in power does the same stunt. Pick Obama. He said something when he came out of nowhere to become a president. He became that president. And some of the important promises were gone. 4 years later, most people don’t look for a third party candidate. Because they don’t care. This is plainly sensationalism: let’s imagine what if this or that sucker dies. Me? I bet he eats in secret for the glory of Mormon or whatever christ he bows to.

So much crazy it’s hard to start.

1. Gay people account for 2-5% of the population. It’s hard to imagine a scenario in which gay people have “the power of the Nazis” anywhere but a far right winger’s twisted imagination.

2. Why on earth would anyone want to put “people of faith” into ovens? I certainly don’t want that. I have good friends who are religious and unlike the bigots who claim to have gay “friends” I can actually produce mine. They actually exist. I believe in the right of people to believe and worship as they choose. Unfortunately some religious people do not think believe in such rights for those who disagree with them.

3. If he doesn’t want to eat that is his right as an adult. He is only harming himself. It’s not something anyone is inflicting upon him.

4. The comparison to Gandhi is not only absurd but insulting to the memory of a great man. He’s protesting the decline of a bigoted system in which the majority was allowed to restrict the rights of a minority. His rights are not being violated in any way. He is angry because he can’t force his prejudices and superstitions on others. He has every right to hold those prejudices and superstitions but that’s not what is at issue here. He wants the state to enforce those on people who do not share them. That is not a right. He is a bigot angry at a reduction of bigotry in the law. If he wasn’t so full of crap he might be able to see that.

Religious freedom LOL. What about the religious freedom of the churches that want to marry gay couples? What about their freedom. Not all religions, not even all Christians, engage in the same anti-gay bigotry that the Mormons do.

because ehhh same?

He will probably get a message from god, aka weasel out of it…

It’s okay everyone, he’s drinking water and taking vitamin supplements, he’ll be around a good long while.

Had to compare himself to Gandhi because no one else would

He isn’t going to starve to death. Not going to happen. He is nothing but an attention whore.

And if not-eating doesn’t work, he may have to escalate to not-breathing. May God grant him the courage to attempt it.

Does “Activist Judge” mean any judge who declares something I don’t agree with? I mean they SAY that it means a Judge who breaks with long-standing traditional rulings, but I don’t remember anyone calling the Supreme Court “activist” when they changed the long-standing interpretation of the 2nd Amendment…

NOT FOR LONG!!!
Wait, yeah, for long.

Mmm, tasty word salad.

I can’t decide whether to laugh or cry at this one.

Nazi war criminal Julius Streicher was executed at Nuremberg along with the rest of the war criminals. As he was being led to the gallows, the guards stopped him at the bottom of the steps for identification formality he uttered his piercing scream: ‘Heil Hitler!’. Dying for a cause doesn’t make the cause right.

He’s probably pissy from the lack of food and from people not caring.

But! But! You’re trampling his right to oppress others! How dare you take his right to take other peoples right!

When is the last time a single-person hunger strike worked? Really?

Preferably after he’s declared incapable of voting.

This was actually before his story broke. He was on his ‘fast’ but I had no idea about it. Nobody did, except his family and friends. I guess he was just hangry.

Why do they care? I mean, seriously. I honestly can’t figure out why these anti-gay people behave like petulant children about gay marriage. The way they act, you’d think the government was nullifying heterosexual unions and only giving legal recognition to same-sex couples.

And this Meacham character. He’s like a five-year-old threatening to hold his breath because Mommy won’t let him eat ice cream for dinner. Good grief, what a ridiculous example. It just goes to show that these people have no sense of proportion. Their exaggerated reactions speak for themselves.

Hey, you asked, I answered :p

What the heck is this loon wearing a SAN FRANCISCO 49ers hat for? And, yes, the woman?

What relation to Evan meacham is he? Evan was another nutty Mormon who tried to stop U2from singing I the name of love at his concerts. I guess the Mormons will find out the real meaning of Darwinism in an up close and personal way.

He’s going to hurt himself until the government hurts someone else. …civil rights as right wingers see it!

The homosexual movement is less tolerant than the Nazis

I would love to see examples of this.

I have no doubt they would not hesitate to march people of faith into ovens.

Hello martyr syndrome.

No, most of you guys believe black people are cursed people as per doctrine, and that God lives on some star named Kolob and some pretty other whacked out shit.

This reminds me of the way non-scientists attack evolution even though they’re not experts in the field and can’t argue about it coherently. If you watch the interview with him, he tries to argue about what the state can legally do but clearly isn’t a lawyer and is instantly shot down by someone who knows what he’s talking about.

He’s just an idiot, and I reckon he’s probably sneaking a chicken nugget here and there too.

I know it’s a bit of a tangent, but I do find ghandi to be a bit of a hypocrite. Yes, most of our heroes are not like we imagine them to be, but ghandi was a giant dick. I mean when he was a lawyer in South Africa he fully supported the apartheid government and believed in the inferiority of those with dark skin. In fact in a letter printed in his newspaper he stated that the South African government should discriminate against black people and the undesirables and let the whites and the upper castes ride in the best areas of the train. I know a tangent, but just thought i’d share my thoughts.

How can we encourage more hate-filled bigots with hot girlfriends to go on never-ending hunger strikes?

Have fun starving to death, jerk.

Where’s the Tea Party to say “Let him die!”

Yes! Leave one more single lady who looks just like Marie Osmond when she was smok’n hot and young! Make this world a better place!

I just love her huge eyes, so much like a Japanese cartoon – too bad on the probable lack of more brains than a cartoon, when you look so good, and would marry such an idiot!

Why stop at two? Imagine an input box for you to enter as many likes as you want.

Dude, nobody can remember where that “h” goes.

When Gandhi was in South Africa it was a British colonial government, which also discriminated against blacks and “coloureds”, as well as Indians like himself, but it wasn’t full-on apartheid which wasn’t implemented until 1948.

I have no idea what that means. But I live here and think it’s safe to say he doubly offends the vast majority of San Franciscans by wearing a symbol of our city, because we are proud of our LGBT community and their struggle for equality.

Wow. Sheriffs and peace officers, of all people.

All, this is getting off topic but Gandhi was no saint. Don’t take my word for it; read up on Christopher Hitchens’ exposés of the man.

For the record, I have the same spelling conundrum with Buddha. Maybe it’s because the “dh” combination just isn’t found (often, if at all) in English.

Vitamin supplements don’t have protein or sheer calories, and the nutrients they contain are often either not absorbed well, or absorbed too quickly and dumped right out in urine. Better than nothing, but not really a substitute for food. His body is going to eat itself down to a husk.

Da hell did I just read?

Don’t worry, he’ll be wearing edible magic underwear.

Well the Mormon church has changed its definition of marriage before. Prophet Woodruff in, I believe it was around 1890, declared that polygamy was no longer to be practiced (on Earth; in the afterlife it is still allowed. Yes, Mormonism is a confusing weird mess). Also, I don’t think interracial marriages were generally looked on favorably until fairly recent times. So, I think young Mr. Meacham really ought to rethink things a bit….

“Is that a candy bar in your magic underwear, or are you just glad to see me?”

Indeed. It really bugs me that some religious people think that their church should get to define marriage for everyone. From the government’s POV, marriage is a kind of legal contract between 2 people. If the couple wants a religious ceremony in addition to getting the marriage license, that is their choice. Churches and their clergy aren’t required to marry anyone who comes to them now (as a for instance, the Mormon temple marriage is restricted to Mormons who can obtain a temple recommend – so not even any and all Mormons are necessarily eligible, much less anyone else) – so why should any one church claim the power to decide marriage laws for people who aren’t even members of their organization? It’s ridiculous.

Depends what these “vitamin supplements” are, eh? You need about 50g protein, and under 2,000 calories a day. I’m not saying it is a good substitute for food, but it is tremendously better than nothing. As a result, he’ll stay alive quite a bit longer. My point is, he’s cheating at fasting. It is truly pathetic he isn’t even standing up for his beliefs in an honest way.

And he deleted the post you linked too on his facebook profile, but if you just go to his profile his bigotry is pretty evident.

I have a bit of a different take on this. I hope he does die. Seriously, because we all know that no state legislature can ever be held hostage by something so juvenile as someone having a temper tantrum because he can’t have his way.
That and he is obviously nothing more than your average attention whore.
So I say let’s see him actually stick to it right up to the end and drop dead, then any other of these whiners will think twice before doing something so stupid.

Let us know when he dies.

I see it more like a kid who’s had a swing set all to himself for ages, now tantrumming because another kid has come along and started using the swing set alongside him.

The new kid being able to use the swings has absolutely NO effect on his ability to use it, but he’s being a selfish crybaby anyway.

Gandhi was an Hindu. Hinduism had a caste system, which the British wanted to dismantle because it was offensive to their moral beliefs. Gandhi opposed this.

He also supported the Germans in World War II.

He’ll either die or give up, it’s a win-win to me, these are the kind of people who need to die out anyway.

Let me know when the scumbag dies. I’ll be the first to “Prost!”

I don’t want him to starve; I feel sorry for him. All he has to do is look at states and countries where same-sex marriage is legal. Are those gays marching believers into ovens? No, of course not. Use your brain.

Mmmmm People of Faith casserole…

Seriously polygamy is okay in heaven, but not on Earth. What about the “on Earth as it is in heaven” part of the Lord’s prayer? Or do they have that prayer? Religion can be used to justify anything.

Laugh, trust me you’ll feel better.

Be hilarious if he was the first to make Breatharianism work.

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Because having a dick in ones mouth is shameful?
Because the only thing worse than being a gay guy is a gay guy who’s internalized society’s homophobia?
Because “he’s gay and he hates himself” is mock worthy rather than sad?
Why do people say shit like this. Do they not even stop for a second to think about the damage it does, or what? It is statistically impossible for every homophobe to be a closeted, self loathing gay guy. Can we stop with this shit already please.

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It would be a madhouse if it did. I would be an adherent to using it more though. I have been, in one way or another, since my childhood. Funny thought–I was born a redhead, for a while was a deadhead, and now disclaim the godhead. It’s risky territory, this religion thing. Gotta wear a hardhat and use a handhold to stay sane, rather than submit to some secondhand ideas.

What about those poor business owners who had taken from them the “right” to choose who they would and wouldn’t have as customers?

Of course, I do think that their loss was a good thing. However, having heard such argument against the 1965 Civil Rights Act from various radical libertarians, I suspect that the Enlightenment era concept of “rights” might be overdue some careful scrutiny at its philosophical underpinnings.

I think the concept is just an incomplete one owing to the source – the thinkers behind the Enlightenment were relatively privileged people who resented autocratic government/religious authority. I doubt that they really thought much about how the decisions of private business owners might affect minority populations, or whether something like a hostile work environment (racial prejudice, sexual harassment) prevented someone from gaining employment and therefore, remaining alive.

It’s too bad he’s changed his Facebook settings to private. I really want to send him messages with photographs of cheeseburgers to keep him motivated.

That does seem likely a historical reason why some (possibly) implicit questionable assumptions weren’t explicitly questioned, yes. Contrariwise, the word “privilege” also makes me twitch as having some underscrutinized flaws in its underpinnings, resulting from promulgation by those similarly wishing to alter existing social order to increase the benefit to themselves and correspondingly situated others.

Nohow, I almost certainly have some blind spots of my own; and both are half-decent approximations as tools for working in practical politics in an efficient manner.