Letter: Time to boycott the LDS church
FILE - In this April 27, 2006, file photo, the sun sets behind the Mormon Temple, the centerpiece of Temple Square, in Salt Lake City. Fewer than half the residents of Salt Lake County belong to the Mormon church, according to new figures that illustrate how Utah's largest county is becoming more religiously diverse. Mormons account for 49 percent of the 1.1 million residents in Salt Lake County — the lowest percentage since at least the 1930s, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Dec. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)
In reference to the Nov. 30 Tribune article “Unfair scar taints record of some gay Latter-day Saints for a lifetime”:
Mormons, would you like to see a major reduction in Utah suicides? Yes, all you Mormons can help prevent this senseless loss of young lives. Right now, today, stop your tithing. Stop attending any services.
If all Mormons did this, church leaders would quickly amend the church's cruel policy against gays and their children.
But most of you Mormons won't dare do this for fear of going against church leaders or losing future residency in the celestial kingdom. Remember Montgomery, when blacks quit riding the city buses and when the city quickly had to reverse its racist policy?
Ted Ottinger, Taylorsville
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