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Amyjo
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Date: January 10, 2018 10:00AM
Because you can't make this stuff up.
I get the rest of it. The Mormonphobia is something new. Or maybe not considering the anti-gay bashing stems from its bowels.
"SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake County has joined a handful of other Utah cities and counties urging state lawmakers to pass stricter hate crimes laws.
The County Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday urging the Utah Legislature to beef up laws to address crimes that target people because of their race, religion or sexual orientation.
County Councilman Arlyn Bradshaw, who helped draft an initial version of the resolution, spoke of how the June 2016 shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that left 49 people dead affected him personally. Bradshaw is openly gay.
"I ugly cried when I heard about it," he said. "I still get emotional thinking about it."
Bradshaw also recalled an incident a year earlier in his neighborhood when two men walking home from a Christmas party were attacked by some men shouting anti-gay slurs.
Bradshaw, a Democrat, and Republican Councilman Michael Jensen sponsored the resolution — but a second version of the resolution was adopted after Councilman Richard Snelgrove offered a more detailed draft with a more expansive list of religious groups known to be targeted, including Jews, Mormons, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jehovah's Witnesses, Orthodox Christians and others.
"I'd like to see less hate in our community," Snelgrove said. "Less racism. Less homophobia. Less Islamophobia. Less Mormonphobia. Less anti-Semitism. It's just not right to have in our community.""
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900007211/salt-lake-county-joins-movement-to-sharpen-utah-hate-crime-laws.html