SALT LAKE (UT)
The Salt Lake Tribune
October 5, 2019
By Courtney Tanner
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They marched for blocks across Salt Lake City, some solemnly humming church hymns and peaceful chants that started in the front but were just getting to the beginning verse by the time the notes carried to the back of the massive crowd.
“We’ll love one another and never dissemble, but cease to do evil and ever be one,” a few sang.
The nearly 800 people — mostly members or former members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — walked to the Utah Capitol on Saturday, on the first day of General Conference weekend, in protest. They passed by the faith’s iconic Salt Lake Temple on their way but didn’t stop. Their goal, they said, was more important.
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