Mormon church endorses Salt Lake City gay and transgender non-discrimination ordinance, city council immediately passes measure

Huge. Huge. Huge.

I never thought I'd see the day that I'd be praising the Mormon church. And I suspect they never thought they'd see the day either. But this is huge. It doesn't erase the hideous thing the Mormons did in stealing marriage from us in California (and let's not forget the million dollar mystery donor in Maine). But it's one hell of a precedent if the Mormons have now decided that anything short of marriage they can accept (if that is in fact where they are).

And don't think for a minute that this didn't happen because the Mormon church got the crap kicked out of it for its vital role in Prop 8, and for its years of anti-gay activism. Because it most certainly did.

This is great news. But the Mormon church needs to know, we're watching. And they have a long way to go before they make up for the sins of California, and so many other states in which the Mormons ripped the human rights away from gay and lesbian Americans.