Press Coverage of the March on City Hall in Ogden

The Ogden Standard-Examiner was on hand for Saturday's protest march on City Hall:

A little girl in a pink fairy princess outfit twirled around, holding a sign reading "Homophobia tears families apart" near the entrance to city hall Saturday afternoon.

"I have a lot of gay friends and acquaintances, and I'm here to support them and their rights," said the child's mother, Leeann Ballard, of Ogden.

The family joined several hundred people in a march from the Marriott Hotel to the steps of the Ogden City Municipal Building to protest comments made by Boyd K. Packer about homosexuality during last week's LDS general conference.

Packer, 86, president of the LDS Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, said in a conference speech that homosexuality is unnatural and can be overcome. Packer is next in line to the presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The crowd prayed and sang hymns promoting tolerance, especially for people of different sexual orientations.

The Rev. Theresa Novak and the congregation of the Universalist Unitarian Church of Ogden organized the march in conjunction with the Mountain Desert District Unitarian Universalist Association district conference held this weekend in Ogden.

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Posted Sunday, 10 October 2010 19:37 Written by Jess Cullinan