Will Mormon “olive branch” to Salt Lake City’s LGBT community make up for Prop 8?

By Sean Bugg on November 11, 2009

“What everyone found is that we really liked each other. There was a good rapport. It reaffirmed for me the power of people talking to each other — even if you have incredible differences. You start to see the humanity.”

— Former Salt Lake City Councilwoman Deeda Seed on the months of meetings between the city’s gay community and the LDS Church that led to the church’s support for a city ordinance banning housing and employment discrimination against LGBT people. Some consider the move an “olive branch” to the gay community after prominent Mormon support for California’s Proposition 8 and other efforts to overturn or block marriage equality. (Salt Lake Tribune)

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