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Mormon Bridges Float Vetoed
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 9:46 pm
by moksha
SALT LAKE CITY - Mormons Building Bridges applies for a slot in Utah's largest celebration of its heritage — the Days of '47 Parade — and gets turned down. Parade co-Chairwoman Jodene Smith handed down the latest denial in a telephone message this week, Bridges co-founder Erika Munson said.
It is the fourth consecutive rejection for the group, which was founded in 2012 to foster better relations between LDS and LGBTQ communities.
Elder Thomas D. Torquemada, the spokesman of Kirton McConkie the Church law firm, responded by saying, "If anyone seeks to build a bridge within 100 yards of the parade route, Church security forces will immediately dismantle it. We will tolerate absolutely no bridge building in our community".
http://www.sltrib.com/home/5283703-155/ ... efore-days
Re: Mormon Bridges Float Vetoed
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 9:21 pm
by 2bizE
Perhaps the group should organize itself as a religion rather than a special interest group. It would then probably get in...
Re: Mormon Bridges Float Vetoed
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 11:54 pm
by Corsair
Bridges co-founder Erika Munson wrote:As in years past, the parade's decision was based on organizers' belief that Bridges is an advocacy group, Munson said. The repeated exercise might seem comical, she added, if it were not so sad.
Ah yes, advocacy is the problem. I'm increasingly convinced that the LBGT issue the is the hill that the LDS Church will die on. I'm sure that Eugene England and other progressives felt similarly about the priesthood and temple ban in the 1960s and 1970s. But I'm skeptical that the LDS church can change this doctrine without having to change so much that it no longer is the same church. Perhaps that's not a bad thing.