11/04/09

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) _ Organizers of a petition drive to ask the
Mormon church to reconsider its policies and political activism
against gay marriage are set to deliver the documents to church
headquarters.

The Foundation for Reconciliation has collected more than 2,000
signatures on the petition which has been circulating online since
June.

About 50 people are expected to deliver the petition to the
offices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on
Wednesday.

Organizer Cheryl Nunn of Santa Cruz, Calif., says the petition
is a reaction to the Salt Lake City-based church's support for
Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in
California.

The foundation is made up of current and former church members.
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