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<\/p>\nHundreds of Mormons Resign in Mass Protest of Church\u2019s Anti-Gay Rules: WATCH<\/b><\/p>\n
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Hundreds of Mormons took part in a rally at Salt Lake City’s City Creek Park on Saturday and resigned from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in disagreement with the church’s policies regarding gay<\/a> people.<\/p>\n At one of several tables, attorney Mark Naugle helped Mormons expedite their paperwork to resign their memberships in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their forms were then dropped into a file box, which was rapidly filling 90 minutes after the event began, for mailing to nearby LDS Church headquarters to have those members’ names removed from the faith’s rolls.<\/p>\n “We’ve talked to at least 800 people,” Naugle said. “It’s absolutely more than I expected.”<\/p>\n At its peak, the line to drop off resignation papers snaked through the park along State Street, turned east along 2nd Avenue, then curved slightly north along Canyon Road.<\/p>\n This week the LDS Church clarified rules in its handbook regarding children of same-sex parents<\/a> after news of the rules sparked an uproar and inspired the mass resignation that took place Saturday and is still ongoing.<\/p>\n The new rules said<\/a> that members of the church in same-sex<\/a> marriages will be considered apostates against whom leaders of the church must enforce discipline.<\/p>\n Additionally, children of members in same-sex<\/a> marriages will be barred from baptism and church membership until they pass the age of 18 and disavow same-sex<\/a> cohabitation and marriage. Also, entrance into the church would then have to be approved by church leaders.<\/p>\n On Friday, LDS Church leaders sought to quell the uproar by clarifying the rules<\/a>, though the clarification is unlikely to satisfy most who are angry about them.<\/p>\n Watch a video<\/a> report from the Salt Lake Tribune:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The post Hundreds of Mormons Resign in Mass Protest of Church’s Anti-Gay Rules: WATCH<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"2_mormons\"](\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2_mormons.jpg?resize=300%2C179\")
The Salt Lake Tribune<\/em> reports that the turnout was larger than expected and overwhelmed organizers<\/a>:<\/p>\n