one more note- if you have a mormon friend, hopefully you know this law is not intended to discriminate against gay people. we have friends and family who are and love them no less and treat them no different. mormons are only trying to preserve what began as a religious binding agreement- marriage was not initially a "legal" thing. it was done before God and ordained a specific way (between a man and woman) yes there were times that later, it was man and womAn again, but who knows why? gays can be together, they can have civil unions with all the same rights. we do judge their actions as sins, but cannot judge the person, if that makes sense. it is not up to anyone on this planet to judge anyone else- only God knows our hearts perfectly. I hate it when christians say " you don't believe in Jesus, you go to hell" or whatever- doesn't that very judgement put them at fault? God loves us all- christian or not- He wants us all to have a chance to get back- he certainly won't sentence most of his children to eternal torment because they had different beliefs.