Petitioners to Mormons: Soften marriage equality stance

The Associated Press
June 22, 2009
A group of current and former Mormons at odds with the church's position on the freedom to marry and its political activism to ban it has launched a Web site asking the faith to soften its stance. The site, http://ldsapology.org, includes a petition for reconciliation that calls on leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to end what it says are hurtful anti-gay policies and its involvement in anti-gay politics and fundraising. Janeen Thompson, a site organizer, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that the petition is a direct reaction to Mormon church involvement in a coalition that worked last fall to pass Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California's state constitution. [Link]