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LGBTQ movement on the rise in Utah – Liberation News
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Reporting from SALT LAKE CITY
Fewer than half the residents of Salt Lake County belong to the Mormon Church, according to new figures that illustrate how Utah’s largest county is becoming more religiously diverse.
Mormons account for 49% of the 1.1 million residents in Salt Lake County the lowest percentage since at least the 1930s, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. That’s according to membership figures provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that include active and nonactive members.
Salt Lake County includes the state capital, Salt Lake City, which has long been more religiously diverse than Utah as a whole. But it also includes suburbs such as West Jordan, Sandy and South Jordan that have traditionally been Mormon hotbeds.