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Mormon, ex-NFL QB Steve Young wants to build bridges with gay community
SALT LAKE CITY — Legendary NFL quarterback Steve Young says he’s a Mormon who wants to build bridges with the gay community.
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Ex-NFL QB Steve Young to speak at Mormon conference on LGBT acceptance
SALT LAKE CITY — Former NFL great Steve Young will be one of the keynote speakers at a three-day conference in Salt Lake City exploring how the Mormon faith is dealing with gays and lesbians.
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Hall of Fame QB Steve Young promotes acceptance of gays in Mormon Church
SALT LAKE CITY — Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young and his wife Barbara are scheduled to give the keynote address at an upcoming conference promoting acceptance of gays and lesbians in the Mormon Church.
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Mormon church criticizes Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage
SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church criticized the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision opening the door for same sex marriage in California, saying it highlights troubling questions about the country’s democratic and judicial systems.
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Mormon parents who supported Prop 8, now fight on behalf of their gay son
A Mormon’s family’s struggle to reconcile its faith with full acceptance of their son’s sexual identity is at the heart of the video “Families Are Forever,” which premieres at Frameline 37: The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival this weekend.
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Boy Scouts join Mormon allies at Utah Pride, defy policy by marching in uniform
SALT LAKE CITY — For a second straight year, a large group of Mormons took part Sunday in the Utah Pride Parade in a show of support for the gay community.
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Gay rights group opposes naming university center for Mormon leader
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah gay-rights organization has started a petition to protest the naming of a new Weber State University center after a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Boy Scouts, Mormon Church bond remains intact with policy change
SALT LAKE CITY — When the Boy Scouts of America began a discussion earlier this year about lifting its ban on gays, some speculated it could lead to the severing of ties with the Mormon church that goes back 100 years.
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Mormon church arranged meeting ahead of vote against LGBT discrimination
POCATELLO, Idaho — Pocatello city officials met with an attorney for a Washington, D.C.-based conservative group brought in by the Mormon church a few weeks before councilors rejected an ordinance intended to protect LGBT people from discrimination.
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The Mormon Church’s support for gay boy scouts is no surprise at all
The Mormon church surprised many last week with its announcement supporting the proposed Boy Scout policy allowing gay scouts but not gay leaders. Having spent most of my life as a Mormon and having served in its local leadership, I wasn’t surprised at all. Here’s why. Though not true until relatively recently, the Mormon church does allow gay people to be members and even to have some local leadership jobs, as long as they stay strictly celibate…