Over 300 Mormons march in Utah Gay Pride Parade - via Feministing →

Participants grounded their support for the LGBT community in Mormon values and teaching. One woman’s sign read: “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” Another marcher’s sign had words from a Mormon’s children song: ”I’ll walk with you, I’ll talk with you. That’s how I’ll show my love for you.” Another participant lamented the number of gay suicides among Mormons: ”There have been too many LDS deaths… No doctrine is more important than God’s children.”

The LGBT non-Mormon participants were visibly touched. Parade grand marshal Dustin Lance Black, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Milk), tweeted: “In tears. Over 300 straight, active Mormons showed up to march with me at the Utah Pride parade in support of LGBT people.” Holly Nelson, a 38-year-old lesbian from Murray, also had tears in her eyes, and said ”I think it’s amazing… It’s been so hard to live in Utah knowing the Mormon church is against the gay community.”