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Mormons March in Pride Parade on Thursday's Access Utah

Members of the group Mormons Building Bridges marching in the 2012 Utah Pride Parade
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Last year, in a surprising development, more than 300 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints marched in the Utah Pride Parade. The group Mormons Building Bridges predicts that with Mormons for Equality also involved, church members will turn out in record numbers to march in this year’s parade on Sunday. Are you planning to march in the parade this year? What do you think of those who are? What does it mean that some Mormons are marching again?

What do you make of official LDS church outreach? www.mormonsandgays.org  And outreach by some church members? www.mormonsbuildingbridges.org   www.mormonsforequality.org  Our guests include Valarie Larabee, Executive Director of the Utah Pride Center; Doree Burt and Corey Howard from Mormons Building Bridges; and Curtis Penfold from Mormons for Equality.

Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.