Review of 8: The Mormon Proposition (2010) by Melodie S — 19 Jun 2010

A fascinating, compelling and heart breaking recounting of the Mormon Church's 15+ year covert battle to deny Gays the right to marry and specifically the multi-million dollar push behind the Prop 8 fight in California in 2008. The film relies on objective proof (documents, video, audio broadcast, campaign training films, eye witness testimony and commercials) of the Church's involvement. Also explores the harrowing emotional and psychological toll the Church's decades long obsession with homosexuality has had on it's Gay members.

While the film confirmed what I already understood to be true from my own personal experience as a former member of the Mormon Church and with the campaign as it played out in real life, the film never the less had fresh lessons to teach me about the campaign and new ways of inspiring me to action as a Gay man.

My only criticism of the film is that the films focus is entirely on the Mormon Church's involvement in the campaign and I would love to see a complete holistic examination of the campaign from both sides as I do believe that there were failures on the Equality CA LGBT side of the fight that contributed to the success of the Mormon Church's campaign.

A must see for anyone interested in civil rights, politics, the separation of church and state and LGBT issues.