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Salt Lake City Council Passes Anti-Discrimination Laws for Gay Rights With LDS Church support:
 
The LDS Church Issued This Statement Yesterday:
 
"We are not anti-gay, we are pro-marriage between a man and a woman. And there's a huge difference between those two points," Elder L. Whitney Clayton, of the Presidency of the Quorum of the Seventy told KSL News.
 
One day after last year's election--in which the Church supported California's Proposition 8--Elder Clayton stressed the support of traditional marriage.
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The Church's First Presidency also released a statement, which reads, in part, that the Church "does not object to rights for same-sex couples regarding hospitalization and medical care, fair housing and employment rights or probate rights."
 
"The LDS Church says it does not oppose same sex couples receiving such rights as hospitalization and medical care, fair housing rights, or probate rights," Mike Thompson, with Equality Utah, said in 2008.
 

The Church's Official Endorsement of these laws is sure to generate its own brand of controversy. Critics will say that the Church is making huge concessions to a group that it has battled since the Gay Rights movement began. In the words of one anonymous critic:

"The Church should have just stayed out of this. By endorsing this legislation they now appear to be promoting the Gay Agenda instead of fighting it. The law would have gone through without their endorsement. Its an embarrassment that did not need to happen. We need leadership, not concessions."

 
Mormon doctrine opposes homosexuality as both evil and vile. yet, the Church teaches its members to love the sinner, but hate the sin.
 
The official Church statement reads:

"... the Church "does not object to rights for same-sex couples regarding hospitalization and medical care, fair housing and employment rights or probate rights."

"Its demoralizing," explained another critic, "We worked so hard in California to push back the Gay Agenda. I just don't understand this at all. This is about our Constitutional Right to enjoy "Freedom of Association". Salt Lake City is only 30% Mormon. Homosexuals only make up 1-3% of the population nationwide. There are plenty of housing and employment opportunities out there for them."

Some small businesses across the valley are even even thinking of relocating outside of the City limits:

"If I am forced to hire someone that I don't trust for my family business, its time to move. This city used to be about Family Values. My business is a Family business and I don't plan on bringing in cross-dressers, transvestites, or openly Gay employees anytime soon. Its just not good for business." (SLC businessman)

 

 

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