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    1. HaileeWallace 23 Sep 2020
      Such outside-the-box strategy, focusing on concrete material benefits that cut across constituencies, can help sidestep the polarizing ferocity of gay-marriage politics, which engulfed California last year. “Full civil equality” expressed in these terms extends beyond the conventional conjugal couple to include the distribution of rights and resources to other individuals and households, to homeless youth, transgendered workers, hounded immigrants, impoverished single parents and beyond.

      This would give us the separation from church with out government that we would need. With Utahs demographic changing from the mass amount of people that have moved here from out of state must be able to change the views from the government at least a little bit. hopefully slow and steady wins the race because more and more people are discovering their sexuality everyday in Utah but the government is scaring them into hiding and hates on them constantly.

    2. HaileeWallace 23 Sep 2020
      LDS hierarchy and conservative Republican moralists are increasingly out of touch with their constituencies.

      There was an uproar this past year when Utah tried to pass the legalization of marijuana in the state when The LDS church put a stop on it and limited the access to medical marijuana in the state to the point where its almost impossible to get with doctors recommendation. People want the judgement to stop and I feel like the only way to do that would to get a separation of church and state from the LDS church so that people will be able to love who they want and define themselves how they want to.

    3. HaileeWallace 23 Sep 2020
      Utah suffers with a so-called Super DOMA (Defense of Mar riage Act), passed in 2004 by 66 percent of voters as Amend-ment 3 to the state Constitution. Amendment 3 goes beyond barring same-sex marriage to bar any “marriage like” legal re -lationship between same-sex couples.

      Personally I believe this is a problem in Utah because it gives the LDS church a backbone and the government a backbone to defend their reasoning on why Gay rights should and are limited as well as the hatred towards the lgbtq community. The Government needs to look at this act again and revise it and look at it from a modern standpoint and listen to its community. Salt LakeCity is the most populated city and with just their votes this act could be changed so that people can love who they want to love and will separate church from state more so that the community is a better and less judgmental towards anyone outside of the mormon religion.

    4. HaileeWallace 23 Sep 2020
      Salt Lake City hosts numerous gay bars and businesses, a busy assortment of queer artists and intellectuals, a thriving drag culture and an “extreme” BD/SM school.

      It's funny to see things like this because it's true that we have so many positive things towards the lgbtq community but for me personally I had no idea that we had such a huge drag group or a BDSM school because sex and sexuality is such a taboo topic for most utahns in the state. just reading this has opened my eyes to utahs drag community and now i'm interested in learning more about them and what they stand for. More people including me need to be educated on what is happening in the community under the taboo sheets of the states judgement due to the church.

    5. HaileeWallace 23 Sep 2020
      Then there’s Salt Lake City’s queer community, whose smart, creative and coalition-building strategies could provide a model for gay activists across the country.

      The author descries that it is true that everywhere in Utah other than Salt lake City/ Downtown area is very democratic and is ruled by the LDS church and their political views and that it is only SLC that is taking a step forward in making a difference and going against the hate towards the LGBTQ+ community but it hasn't been able to spread to other parts of the state as well because of Utahs heavy republican views.

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