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June 8, 2012

Mormons Amass at DC Pride March

Joanna Brooks, Religion Dispatches

One week after last Sunday’s Mormons Building Bridges contingent headed the Salt Lake City gay pride parade, Mormons will again take to the streets this Saturday, to march in the Washington D.C. pride parade—the second in a series of ten pride parade contingents planned by a loose coalition of grassroots Mormon groups nationwide.

In Salt Lake City, Mormons Building Bridges stressed a very simple message of love and understanding, an important step, organizers felt, towards addressing feelings of pain, division, and estrangement over LGBT issues in Utah families,...

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