952: Church and State - Toppling Utah's Gay Marriage Ban
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Join us as we interview key contributors to the documentary “Church and State,” James Huntsman, Holly Tuckett, and Mark Lawrence.
Mormon Stories is honored to host a private screening of the award-winning documentary “Church and State.” This screening will be held on Wednesday, July 18th, 2018 at 7:00 pm at the Broadway Theater in Salt Lake.
This movie is the improbable story of a brash, inexperienced gay activist and a tiny Salt Lake City law firm that joined forces to topple Utah’s gay marriage ban. The film’s ride on the bumpy road to equality in Utah offers a glimpse at the Mormon church’s influence in state politics and the squabbles inside the gay community that nearly derailed a chance to make history.
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| 1:23.0 | Music |
| 1:29.0 | It is June 28th, 2018 and as always I am so very excited to be interviewing the people that |
| 1:38.0 | we're interviewing today just to give you a little bit of background. We have a new LGBTQ |
| 1:45.0 | theme documentary that's come out and it may not be the one you think I'm thinking about. |
| 1:50.0 | The documentary is called Church in State and it's a documentary about the role that Utah played in |
| 1:59.0 | a same-sex marriage becoming legalized across the United States. I watched the movie last night and I loved it. |
| 2:09.0 | To be honest, I've been studying LGBT stuff for quite some time. I've been involved in my little ways for many, many years. |
| 2:17.0 | I wasn't sure how interested or excited I would be about an LGBT themed documentary and I was super |
| 2:24.0 | enthralled from the very start. I thought it was a very high quality movie, very well done, very thoughtful |
| 2:33.0 | and professional and given the people that were involved in it, I'm not surprised, but today we're going to be |
| 2:39.0 | interviewing three of the main people involved in this wonderful documentary again called Church in State. |
| 2:47.0 | Before I introduce our guests, I want to let you all know that on July 18th, 2018, there will be a screening of this movie. |
| 2:57.0 | That's a Wednesday night, 7pm at the Broadway Theatre in Salt Lake City. What I would love is for everyone in the Salt Lake area who supports |
| 3:06.0 | Mormon Stories podcast, who supports local art cinema to show up and we are going to do a screening of the movie, |
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