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UT: Catholic Bishop Visits Mormon BYU, Calls for Stronger Alliance Against Marriage Equality

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

The fight to defend moral principles is linking Mormons and Catholics like never before. “In recent years, Catholics and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have stood more frequently side by side in the public square to defend human life and dignity,” Cardinal Francis George told nearly 12,000 students, faculty and community members gathered Tuesday at BYU.

“I’m personally grateful that after 180 years of living mostly apart from one another, Catholics and Latter-day Saints have begun to see each other as trustworthy partners in defense of shared moral principles.”

Believed to be the highest-ranking Catholic official to ever visit BYU, Cardinal George spoke about the need for both religions to stand together to protect religious freedom – not simply as a set of private beliefs, but the ability of individuals and groups to practice their religion in the public square.

Full Story from Deseret News
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UT: Lawmakers Put Off Anti Discrimination Legislation for a Year

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Utah lawmakers will not consider a law that would ban discrimination against gay men and lesbians in the workplace and in housing, and will instead spend the next year studying the issue, key lawmakers said Friday. In exchange, opponents of gay-rights legislation will drop any effort to prevent local governments from passing their own nondiscrimination laws this legislative session.

Gay-rights advocates had hoped to build on recent momentum created by the Salt Lake City Council, which passed nondiscrimination ordinances last year. Those ordinances passed after The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said it would support the measures.

In Utah, few law changes occur if the church disapproves. More than 80 percent of state lawmakers are Mormon, including Gov. Gary Herbert, a Republican.

Full Story from the NY Times
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CA: Mormon Church Documents Could Surface at Prop 8 Trial

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

ABC 4 News is being told that some of the LDS Church’s activities could be brought up at the California federal trial on the future of gay marriage. According to our sources, the San Francisco City Attorney has shown interest in and is expected to soon receive
hundreds of documents about the LDS Church’s opposition to gay marriage.

ABC 4 News is also being told that copies of these documents were sent by special courier to the City Attorney’s office and they were sent in just the last few days.

Again, according to our sources, the San Francisco City Attorney, Dennis Herrera, requested, perhaps, as many as 1,500 copied documents about the LDS Church’s opposition to gay marriage.

Full Story from ABC4.com: http://www.abc4.com/content/news/state/story/Will-LDS-Church-documents-surface-at-California/wkS0bvB77kSpGjgHwMM90g.cspx

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UT: Sundance to Show "8: The Mormon Proposition"

Friday, December 4th, 2009

At 2 p.m. Thursday, the 2010 Sundance Film Festival announced that former Utah newsman Reed Cowan would bring his new documentary to the elite festival. By 5 p.m. Thursday, Cowan learned religious and anti-gay activists were organizing, discussing online whether they should gather at Park City to show their angry opposition to the screening.

Cowan’s film is “8: The Mormon Proposition.” It is described on the Internet Movie Database, www.imdb.com, as “a scorching indictment of the Mormon Church’s historic involvement in the promotion and passage of California’s Proposition 8,” the proposition that banned same-sex marriage in California.

“I know that it’s going to be protested,” Cowan said in an e-mail interview from his home base in Florida. “I just got forwarded a blog threatening boycotts and protests. … I can tell you thousands of gay-rights leaders from all over the country are going to be marching in counterpoint to the other marches.”

Full Story from Standard.net: http://www.standard.net/topics/features/2009/12/03/prop-8-film-prompts-promises-boycotts-protests

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