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WATCH: Mormons March in S.F. Pride, Work to Reconcile Prop. 8 Damage

WATCH: Mormons March in S.F. Pride, Work to Reconcile Prop. 8 Damage

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More than 100 self-described 'Mormons for Marriage Equality' marched in San Francisco's LGBT Pride Parade on Sunday.

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As San Franciscans celebrated the court-ordered demise of Proposition 8, roughly 150 Mormons marched in the city's massive LGBT Pride Parade on Sunday to demonstrate support for a community deeply hurt by the $20 million and thousands of volunteers the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints poured into the fight to approve Prop. 8 in 2008.

Following immense backlash from those efforts, the Mormon church has backed off its vocal opposition to marriage equality In recent years -- a quiet shift that's made a huge difference in the fight for federally recognized same-sex marriage.

Marching behind a banner that read "Mormons for Marriage Equality" and led by San Franciscan Mitch Mayne, LGBT-supportive Mormons carried signs with slogans like "This Mormon mom loves her gay son," and "I'm not gay, but he is! And I love him!"

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, one of the Mormons who marched in Sunday's parade was Wendy Montgomery, a mom who obediently campaigned for Prop. 8 in 2008, before she knew her son, Jordan, was gay. Today, thanks to now 14-year-old Jordan's honesty and some help from San Francisco State University's Family Acceptance Project, Montgomery proudly loves and accepts her son for who he is.

The Family Acceptance Project, a research organization that helps families from a diverse background of religious and cultural perspectives come to terms with and accept their LGBT children, is set to release a short film chronicling the Montgomery family's journey to acceptance. The 21-minute film recently screened at San Francisco's Frameline LGBT Film Festival, and the touching trailer below has been making the rounds online.

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Sunnivie Brydum

Sunnivie is the managing editor of The Advocate, and an award-winning journalist whose passion is covering the politics of equality and elevating the unheard stories of our community. Originally from Colorado, she and her spouse now live in Los Angeles, along with their three fur-children: dogs Luna and Cassie Doodle, and "Meow Button" Tilly.
Sunnivie is the managing editor of The Advocate, and an award-winning journalist whose passion is covering the politics of equality and elevating the unheard stories of our community. Originally from Colorado, she and her spouse now live in Los Angeles, along with their three fur-children: dogs Luna and Cassie Doodle, and "Meow Button" Tilly.