Gays invited to Meet with [Utah] Gov.

Dan82 · Aug 20, 2010

http://www.qsaltlake.com/2010/08/19/gays-invited-to-meet-with-gov/

For the third year, the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender-friendly Utah Log Cabin Republicans will attend a private reception with Gov. Gary Herbert and First Lady Jeanette Herbert.

The first reception was in 2007 during the governorship of Republican Jon Huntsman, who made several strides in reaching out to Utah’s gay and transgender community during his time in office, going so far as to publicly support civil unions. The reception, said LCR President Mel Nimer, was part of Huntsman’s effort to promote the group within his party and to “build some bridges” between Republicans and gays.

After President Obama appointed Huntsman as U.S. Ambassador to China in 2009, Gov. Gary Herbert kept up the tradition. In fact, Nimer said that Herbert called him shortly after taking office to let them know they’d be invited to the governor’s annual reception.

“He wanted to carry on Huntsman’s tradition as part of his open door policy,” he said. “Being a Republican organization representing the [gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender] community we do have the ear of the Governor and Lt. Governor.” And even though both officials aren’t always supportive of pro-gay and transgender legislation, Nimer added that LCR’s leadership know they can talk to them and that ‘they see we’re just regular people.’

But Log Cabin Republicans aren’t the only community members who are invited to the reception. All leadership organizations in the community have been invited, said Nimer, including the Utah Pride Center, Equality Utah and the Utah Steering Committee of the Human Rights Campaign...

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Emberstone · Aug 20, 2010

not that the he has any authority in utah on gay rights. the church controls everything.

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