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'Love advocates' plan 'kiss-in' at Main Street Plaza

This will be cool. The LDS church can't seem to stop stepping all over itself these days.

I can't make it on Sunday morning but I will be there in spirit supporting those that can. May God bless us all and make us much more tolerant and less self-righteous.

Get a life

This is not a gay vs. Mormon struggle: this is a struggle for tolerance. Mormons disagree with gays, and gays disagree with Mormons.

Mormons don't go to gay nightclubs and offend gays.

Why do gays have to go to our places of worship to offend us?

Call it a lack civility, call it a lack courtesy, or call it a total lack of tolerance from a special interest group that demands tolerance of others, but not themselves.

I call it hypocrisy.

If you don't like the rules, then stay off private property!!!! You are there as a guest and if you cannot conduct yourself with respect and by the rules of the property owner stay away. Go to your own place and kiss away. Hopefully you will be asked to leave and arrested if you do not!

Lame,lame, and lame!

No one has rights anymore unless they are gay or are willing to flaunt or celebrate "alternative" behaviors....LDS church...no rights to adhere to moral beliefs or practices, it is then an agenda; security guards, SLC Police, no right to enforce the law...they are over reacting....I had gay friends as a teen in the 60's and 70's, neither they nor I felt the need to flaunt or shove in each other's faces our beliefs or "agendas." I still have friends who are gay--thanks to each of you who can accept me and my opinions...and I will continue to accept you and yours. Together we will tolerate the narcissistic cry babies who think there is no room in the world for opinions or belief systems different than their own. Wear your hearts on your sleeves so you can waa waa waaa together.

Yes it is wrong. It is private property and as private property if they do not want two men kissing in public then they should leave. End of story. And since they didn't and they made a big deal about it they were escorted off the property. So now they have to whine about it and get other people involved! When will gays and homosexuals respects OUR rights to not have to witness their actions!

bring their loved ones – husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, kids and even pets – to the downtown plaza between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. and show their love with a smooch.


Kool....I'm in so long as gays are not invited!

What they were doing was not love, it was out of place may be with the intention of making the gay cause more appealing to their cause. They know this is private property, and they are like spoiled kids trying to punish us for their lost in california. If they want to kiss then pay a hotel.

If they actually go through with this then all that will happen is repeat of Thursday. They will be asked to leave and if they don't then they'll be cited for trespassing. Because the police will have to be involved to remove the people from the property then it will be a waste of taxpayer money and police time. Go ahead, do it, and feel good about that fact that just because you don't like something you then feel you have the right to waste the tax money of every person in Utah.

I understand protests...but the location and the target audience speaks of how insensitive the "organizers" are for a belief system and a people. They would never go protest another religion by, for example, having a pork BBQ on a sidewalk in front of a church. Or having a Saturday picnic in front of another church that worships on that day. What a poor indication of character to protest in this way on this place. Let it go. Go do some service. Do you really think this protest will do anything except create more controversy? It will certainly not change policy. This planned event is simply hurtful. But knowing who is organizing it, it's typical.

Obvioiusly the homosexuals were protesting the Church's stand against homosexuality. Its not as if they weere there admiring the landscaping and just decided right then and there to get frisky. Hey, homosexuals, leave our Church alone!

I truly believe these guys did more then just a little kiss and hand hold. I am sure they were doing it for attention and to prove a point. I wouldn't show up to a Jewish synagogue and set up a pork hot dog stand and not expect them to have an issue with it. It's about showing some respect for peoples property and beliefs. I would be equally disappointed if people were putting "Marriage is between one man and one woman" signs on someone's lawn without permission. This "protest" is nothing more than an attention grab by some very insensitive people.

Maybe the city should seize a pedestrian easement across the plaza by eminent domain. That would solve the problem.

You go girl!

Go have your kiss in at the Sorenson Unity Center.

Good luck and have a nice day. It's private property, get used to it. If someone was smoking in your home, you asked them not to, and they refused, became verbally abusive and profane with you, would we all be accusing you of "overreacting" for calling the police? Would I, as your neighbor, call for a "smoke in" on your front lawn, and view myself as morally superior?

I'l be there...

Two gay men provoke an incident, get offended (and arrested) over the results of their provocation, a laughable news story is written, and now a planned "kiss-in." I can't get over the fact that this is even a reportable event. I guess only in Utah! Gay, straight, bi-sexual, whatever....Just follow the rules and laws that pertain to the places that you visit, and there will not be anything to report. Excuse me now while I go find a No Trespassing sign and challenge the landowner by trespassing. Next on my list is a No Hunting, and No Fishing challenge. How dare those landowners tell me what I can do on their land! Watch for my planned "fish-in" in the near future.

Yes. I am sure they are just trying to show love.

Uh-huh.