But I did get another e-mail from the LDS:

Hey Keith,

This is Kelsey. We chatted earlier this week on Monday on LDS/Mormon.org. I really enjoyed talking to you and answering your questions. I was hoping to hear from you and maybe talk some more about some questions you may have about the church or life. I just wanted to let you know that I know the Bible can sometimes be confusing, but what it teaches about Jesus Christ can really help us in our lives. I know that having faith in Jesus Christ can bring us happiness in our lives and that marriage is truly a blessing from God.

I hope you have a great weekend, and I look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

Kelsey

Oh Please, advertisers exert control on editorial content. Hence ABC pulling Adam Lambert at the threat of their advertisers. The Momrons would threaten to pull their ads, and they would buy a lot of them because they are the second or third richest religeous organization in the nation, if Queerty ever wrote anything anti-Mormon. So by not accepting ads, they are maintaining editorial freedom.

The morons would totally regret buying in here. They open one of those cozy chat rooms, and we’d all go flooding in teaching THEM a thing or two. Not to mention arranging real world dates with some of their guys. Let’s see, hmmmm, chat room talk. I’ve got it! How about:

Oooooooooh, baby, don’t be so mean to me. I just wanna rub up against you a little…like this. Yeah, honey, it’s hard. Aw c’mon, let me put my tongue in your ear, yeaaah, just like that. Doesn’t that feel good? Huh? Ooooooo, baby, you’re so sweet.

You get the idea. Mormons’ll love it.

The only threads that ever generate this much attention are racial and Mormon related topics.

Seriously – most threads never get more than a dozen responses.

I will believe when I see the contract offered.

Absolutely.

As TJ so well put it, in so many words, there is power in numbers.

Personally, I think it would be hilarious for a gay bookstore with a small video selection to put a Mormon ad right in the middle of the “erotic” section. http://www.adlbooks.com/ (no Mormon money yet, but some of pictures on the website will get the idea across)

You missed the point – there are a lot of reasons they might want a database of known gays, particularly ones who are politically active. One reason is for “opposition research”, the sort of thing done in a political campaign. With some “data mining” they can find out a lot about you, just as large corporations do. If they decided you were causing too much trouble in an effort to repeal Proposition Eight, for example, they might try to blackmail you by leaking information that they think you might find embarrassing. It’s not that far fetched – near the end of the Proposition Eight campaign, the “Yes on Eight” side for all intents and purposes tried to blackmail businesses that supported the “No on Eight” campaign by demanding a like contribution to their side, with some silly threat as an incentive.

To the folks saying, “sure let them throw their money here, less money to use in battles against us.” come on! seriously? those corrupt bastards have more money than they know what to do with.

how offensive that you would even consider taking money from a group who singlehandedly made sure gays couldnt marry. FUCK THAT!!!

Disgust.

I highly doubt that they will keep track of where the numbers come from. The Mormon missionaries prey on the sick, the elderly, teens, those with dementia- ANYONE they can baptize to bump their numbers. I’ve spoken with and read the stories of missionaries that knew full well the person they were baptizing was doing it b/c they thought the mishie was hot, or wanted the attention, or wasn’t in their right mind- but the pressure to baptize is SO STRONG, and it is not uncommon these days for boys to come home with ERO baptisms because no one wants to talk to them. They see ex-Mos and anti-Mos and probably even the GLBT community as a “challenge” and the GENUINELY BELIEVE THEY CAN CHANGE YOU.

So, no, I don’t think they will keep a database tracking who came from Queerty- and if they did, it would only encourage them that they were “inspired” by the Lawd to advertise here and people are really “challenged” and “convicted” by the ads.

Don’t let Mormons fool you: they don’t love you. If you don’t believe me, ask them if you are welcome in their church even if you never change. I don’t even know if they would baptize you if you admitted to being a active member of the GLBT community, but if they do- that’s as far as you’ll ever climb on the Mo ladder until you denounce your evil ways and become straight and admit that they are right all along. The “love the sinner, hate the sinner” bs only lasts up until they’ve TOLD you you’re a sinner- then you’re just wrong.

I still come back to this point though: why would you want to align yourself with a group that so clearly hates you and is actively working to take away your rights? LDS has those banner ads EVERYWHERE, don’t become another group to give your silent “okay” by allowing them to put their name on your page.

Why not just pair up the ads with pictures of the hottest guys you can find? If you do that, your typical QUEERTY reader won’t even notice those ads!

Do you have any independent data on the “hounded and stalked” part?

Otherwise, that raises a possibility I hadn’t thought of – that they might want to maintain a database of gays or gay-friendly individuals. If you click on a link, your browser will set a header telling the server what page you were last visiting, so they’ll know you reached their web site via QUEERTY.

I also hope Queerty compares the total of the two “Yes” categories to the total of the two “No” categories and doesn’t just pick the one of the four that gets the most votes. There really should only have been a “Yes” category and a “No” category to begin with. No offense to Queerty, but the second “Yes” option seems more like a joke than an actual option. However, the two “No” options are equally valid and thus divide the nay-sayers more evenly than the supporters.

Who the hell is voting here?

Mormons?

“Lets place a nice cheery christian ad full of love and acceptance, like jesus would, at the gay sites! It will be fun, and soon, everybody will forget how evil we are in mormon land.”
You know, the land with the highest gay teenage suicide rate. The same teenager’s who will come to queerty for refuge and support and find…”A happy mormon ad!” And, the mormons get their way again by tossing their money around, and come out smelling like a rose. Because, their money will keep your web site up.

He just read a bumper sticker that said “America, love it or leave it”

“Oh, that’s just your trouser devil talkin’” —Ned Flanders

LOL!!!!! Give me a break! You know how I can tell you’re a gigantic closet case just screaming to come out? Because REAL straight people don’t create screenames that scream out that they are straight. Because straights are so used to hetrosexuality being the norm that it would never occur to them to make a gigantic deal about their own hetro-ness, because again, thats their norm. YOU on the other hand are making SUCH a huge deal about your “cough” “Straightness” that you are like the little kid with crumbs on his mouth yelling that he didn’t eat the cookie. Seriously, go out, get yourself a boyfriend and stop pretending to be something you’re not Gayboy!…..

Oh, and as for us supporting the Mormons, don’t even try to pretend that somebody trying to keep our lifestyle illegal is somehow the same as a website not wanting to run their ads unless your “Christian” church would be willing to take gay friendly ads. Oh wait, where did you go? Oh, you already left to go look at a gay porn site??? Yeah, not surprising.

… I know this is nerdy, but where’s Admiral Ackbar when we need him?

And no, thank you but I have no interest it attracting Mormons to my doorbell. For some reason they haven’t come by in years and I’d like to keep it that way. (though the Jehovah’s Witnesses do, about once a month, on Wednesday, at noon, which is convenient because I know when not to answer.)

Don’t take the money, queerty. Just… don’t.

I ask that you not do that. Recycling is a really third best solution to saving our planet. First best is not use something at all. That saves the most energy/materials. Second best is to use something in a different way. E.g., instead of throwing out a bowl, use it as a flower pot. That saves the energy/materials that would have been used to make the flower pot. Third best is recycling, because you avoid processing new materials. It’s third best because still spend a lot of energy doing the recycling, including all the energy of moving stuff around. With regard to ordering the Book of Mormon, wasting trees to harm the Mormon church strikes me as a bad idea, because it comes at the expense of the planet and is passive aggressive.

This discussion has been an interesting way to get to know some of my fellow readers. Thanks to all who have participated, including those with whom I disagree.