After the opposition from some of my Latter-day Saint friends to the Supreme Court’s ruling on DOMA and Prop 8, I assumed there would be a similar reaction following Utah’s marriage ruling. Instead, there’s been silence.
Visitors to the Celebration of Marriage event stand outside the South Towne Expo Center in Sandy, Utah, on June 26, 2013.
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File
The week the Supreme Court ruled on the Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8, my Facebook feed was awash in posts and memes about marriage equality, including some by my friends who are Latter-day Saints.
Many Mormon friends who supported marriage for same-sex couples changed their profile picture to the week's ubiquitous red equal sign, while those opposed either posted images depicting a male-female couple or the church leader's 1995 statement on family and marriage titled The Family: A Proclamation to the World, while some just quietly changed their profile picture to a photo from their wedding.
