The Mormons are already working on Proposition 9.
At least, I assume they are. Because if they aren't, they would be hypocrites. And the Bible frowns on that:
Matthew 23:23-24 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!... Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
So in order not to be seen as camel-swallowing Pharisees the Mormons really have no choice but to work on the sequel to their smash hit, Prop 8...
First off, a word about Prop 8. You may be wondering - where does all this hate come from? Is it from God or is it just from a group of people with minds so narrow a thought can't squeeze through without getting greased up by zealotry?
Well, a little of both, I suppose. It comes from people who were told by other people that long dead people told them that God told them to tell some other people to tell a smaller group of people to tell a subset of people in California they don't deserve to get married. But this is not the first subset those people have told they can't get married.
That's why, deep in a bunker in Utah, the first draft of Prop 9 is being written.
Prop 9
Only marriage between people of the same race is valid or recognized
in California.
The logic here is mandatory. The text and the wisdom of the elders leaves no room for debate.
But first, let's be realistic. Though the Book of Mormon is pretty clear about the whole "Mark of Cain" thing...
And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them. - 2nd Nephi 5:21
And...
"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind .... Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin." Journal of Discourses 7:290
... it probably wouldn't be right to deny black people the right to marry each other. But who could deny that it is completely reasonable to keep them from marrying delightsome white people?
In fact, the Prophet Brigham Young insists on it:
"If the White man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain (those with dark skin), the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so." Journal of Discourses 10
Always. That's a long time. That would even include 2008, you'd think.
Anyway, Young is pretty clear. And who can blame him? Who knew that we have interracial marriage to thank for... Satan!
"And after the flood we are told that the curse that had been pronounced upon Cain was continued through Ham's wife, as he had married a wife of that seed. And why did it pass through the flood? Because it was necessary that the devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God..." Journal of Discourses 22:304
And, stop me if this sounds familiar, but black people won't be satisfied with just equality:
"I think I have read enough to give you an idea of what the Negro is after. He is not just seeking the opportunity of sitting down in a cafe where white people eat. He isn't just trying to ride on the same streetcar or the same Pullman car with white people. It isn't that he just desires to go to the same theater as the white people. From this, and other interviews I have read, it appears that the Negro seeks absorption with the white race. He will not be satisfied until he achieves it by intermarriage. That is his objective and we must face it." - Mark E. Peterson (one of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles), 1954
So the evidence is inarguable and the path the church must take is clear...
Prop 9 is demanded by their own teachings. And those teachings also demand a Prop 10 that will put interracial marriage on the list of capital crimes and make it punishable by death.
Finally, the will of the prophets will be made into law.
And if they don't submit Prop 9... would that make them a giant collection of hypocritical bigots?
How do you like your camel, buttered or with jam?