At a press conference Tuesday in Salt Lake City, elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made a startling offer to gay and lesbian America: If you will support reasonable religious-liberty exemptions for us, we will support expanded civil-rights protections for you.
From the point of view of gay-rights advocates and gay people — and I happen to be in both categories — there were two ways to look at the church’s announcement. It could be an olive branch. Or it could be a trap.
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