Post Date: 13th Oct, 2010 - 1:17pm / Post ID:
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Gay Activists Deliver Petition To Mormon Church
What is your opinion of the petition made by Gay activists to the Church with regards to the talk given by Elder Packer in General Conference?
QUOTE SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- National gay rights activists on Tuesday delivered a petition letter carrying 150,000 signatures to the Mormon church following an address given by President Boyd K. Packer, a Church Apostle.
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay civil rights organization, collected the signatures after an e-mail alert to members and supporters -- 20 percent of whom are not lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The response to the alert is the largest in HRC history.
The petition letter and signatures were delivered in an 800-page stack to the church's downtown Salt Lake City office building by HRC President Joe Solmonese and leaders from Utah's gay community and a gay Mormon support group.
Petition follows General Authority's remarks
President Packer, 86, is president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is the second-highest ranking Mormon church leader and the next in line for the presidency of the 13.5 million-member faith....