Mormon church is conspicuously absent in Md. same-sex marriage referendum

Maryland activists working to overturn same-sex marriage have had to get used to one surprising absence from their religious coalition: Mormons. A huge amount of Mormon money and foot soldiers and the support of church leadership were credited with an epic win for traditional marriage in 2008 when California voters approved Proposition 8, which said that only marriage between a man and woman would be recognized in the state. And the D.C. region has one of the largest communities of Mormons outside the West.

But Mormon leaders in Maryland have been silent on the ballot measure to affirm or toss the state’s new same-sex marriage law.

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