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The Mormon Church has been a target of vituperation by some gay rights groups because of its active opposition to same-sex marriage. But on Wednesday, the church was being praised by gay rights activists in Salt Lake City, citadel of the Mormon world, for its open support of a local ordinance banning discrimination against gay men and lesbians in housing and employment.
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“It’s the most progressive and inclusive statement that the church has made on these issues,” said Will Carlson, the manager of public policy at Equality Utah, the state’s largest gay rights group. “What they’ve said here is huge, in protecting residents in other municipalities, and statewide.”
In its statement backing the ordinance, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said that while it remained “unequivocally committed to defending the bedrock foundation of marriage between a man and a woman,” the question of how people were treated on the job and in finding places to live were matters of fairness that did not have anything to do with marriage.
“Across America and around the world, diverse communities such as ours are wrestling with complex social and moral questions,” Michael R. Otterson, a church spokesman, said in a statement to the City Council. “The issues before you tonight are the right of people to have a roof over their heads and the right to work without being discriminated against.”
Good to see this news. This should remind people to think twice before they try to label an entire religion as being bigoted based on its stance on one particular facet of an issue.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/us/12utah.html
Good to see this news. This should remind people to think twice before they try to label an entire religion as being bigoted based on its stance on one particular facet of an issue.
OK, I stand corrected. I claim ignorance. I knew nothing about what their "magic underwear" meant. :mrgreen:
Of course
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OK, just checking...cause ya know...being bigoted against a religion that may very well be out to convert or kill you might be a legitimate response.
You've never seen those guys in white shirts and ties who come door to door?Never understood why Mormons got such a bad rap after the whole Prop 8 disaster. The ones I met at least live by a live and let live philosophy.
You've never seen those guys in white shirts and ties who come door to door?
I don't think any religion is out to convert or kill anyone, though individual members of that religion may well be. In such a case, I'd feel free to label those individuals as what I believed them to be.
the mormom church, and every other church, has every right to deny same sex marriage, without being called bigots.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/us/12utah.html
Good to see this news. This should remind people to think twice before they try to label an entire religion as being bigoted based on its stance on one particular facet of an issue.
You've never seen those guys in white shirts and ties who come door to door?
Never understood why Mormons got such a bad rap after the whole Prop 8 disaster. The ones I met at least live by a live and let live philosophy.
Your thinking of Jehovah Witnesses.
LDS missionaries dress in white shirts and ties. Two of them helped me move a sofa. I didn't convert, but we had a pleasant exchange and I support what they're doing as right for them.
Nah, I used to get Jehovah's Witnesses at my door (but they'd usually come as couples with children dressed in normal clothes). I also got a couple of Mormons at least once (and they looked pretty much like the guys in the picture).
You're the only one around here that needs magic underwear.OK, I stand corrected. I claim ignorance. I knew nothing about what their "magic underwear" meant. :mrgreen:
Does that include Islam?
I see SLC is catching up with the times, in which case I don't see why the Mormons would try to stop it. They are, however, opponents to gay marriage as evidenced by their large cross-state interference in Prop 8, and thus we cannot give them full credit. They are still against equal marriage opportunity and gay couples adopting children.
You're the only one around here that needs magic underwear.
How do YOU know? You have been sneaking into my home in the middle of the night, checking out my underwear drawer again?
Creeeeepy!! :mrgreen:
And they are right.
So why is it that we cannot just let this go and work on far more important things ?
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