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Datum: Montag, den 20. Juli 2009, um 9:40 Uhr
Betrifft: Ist die LDS schuld an dem Problem?

Wieder ein Artikel aus der Salt lake Tribune, aus dem dieses Zitat stammt:

The church bought the strip of Main -- from North Temple to South Temple -- in 1999 after then-Mayor Deedee Corradini and the City Council, with the only two non-LDS members dissenting, signed off on the $8.1 million deal. But the controversy burned for five more years as federal courts were asked to settle the prickly issue of whether the church could govern expression on the plaza and whether the city could retain a public right of way (as outlined in the original deal). "It was meant to be for everybody," Eyer says. "Where people come and go their constitutional rights go with them." After a 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in 2002, First Amendment activities returned to the plaza. But demonstrations by anti-Mormon protesters -- including cries of "whore" and "harlot" hurled at newlywed brides -- "sustained divisions" that "reached to the point of hatred" between Mormons and non-Mormons, Anderson says.
In the end, he agreed to trade the public easement for cash and LDS land to build a west-side community center.
"What we were really swapping was a major division that wouldn’t go away," Anderson says, for "the opportunity to really improve the lives of a lot of people over generations through the services and facilities that would be available at the [Sorenson] Unity Center."
Anderson tried to patch up the sores, staging a series of "Bridging the Religious Divide" forums in 2004 and 2005 that sprouted small discussion groups throughout the Salt Lake Valley.
"People, in general, have many more similarities than they do differences," says Elise Lazar, who is Jewish and has participated in bridge-building groups with Mormons and members of other faiths since 2004.
"Our guidelines have always been that we are not there to change anybody, but to understand each others’ positions," she says. "We’re friends now."
Still, she says, LDS views on homosexuality and efforts to thwart gay marriage remain among the "thorniest" issues. (http://www.sltrib.com/lds/ci_12864692) Hervorhebungen von mir

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