2 Men Cited in Trespassing on LDS Plaza

Two men were cited for trespassing by Salt Lake City police after security personnel for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints excused them from church property.

Two men were cited for trespassing by Salt Lake City police after security personnel for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints excused them from church property.

According to a blog posted at www.blueinredzion.com, Derek Jones and his partner, Matthew Aune, were holding hands as they passed through the pedestrian mall east of the Salt Lake Temple as they returned home from a concert at the Gallivan Center. Aune hugged and kissed Jones in the plaza, at which point church security asked the men to leave because they were being inappropriate.

“Two individuals came on church property and were politely asked to stop engaging in inappropriate behavior — just as any other couple would have been,” said Kim Farah, spokeswoman for The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a prepared statement.

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