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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Protesters, including straight couple, hold kiss-in at the Mormon mother ship

This is in response to the Mormons performing an apparent citizen's arrest on a gay couple that had the temerity to share a kiss in front of their church in Salt Lake City. Here's the Salt Lake Tribune's account:

Wearing bright red lipstick, Isabelle Warnas smiled and planted a big kiss on her husband's cheek, something she said she has done often under the spires of the LDS Church's Salt Lake Temple.

"Nobody has said a thing to us," the 50-year-old Salt Lake City resident said.

This time, though, they had an audience of more than 100. They were gathered for a "kiss-in," staged Sunday morning at Main Street Plaza to show support for a gay couple who say they were detained by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints security guards after one man kissed the other on the cheek Thursday.

"My husband and I can not understand the discrimination," Warnas said. "This is not right."
USA Today reveals that the city gave the Mormons the land in a swap deal a few years back.

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