A few residents opposed the name change at a council meeting before the vote. But Stan Penfold, the state’s first openly gay councilman, whose district includes the Mormon Church headquarters, pointed out that church leaders did not fight it.
“If we were looking at a liquor law change, we’d hear all about it,” said Penfold, who was raised Mormon. “Part of that comes from the relationships that were forged when the nondiscrimination law passed.”
But it’s also the attitude of conservative Utahns, whom Penfold described as “a really tolerant community, even though they disapprove.”
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