Salt Lake Crawler

Boy, take away the right of same sexes to get married and you never hear the end of it. And the gays, reputed to be experts at theater, seem to be getting better all the time at messing with the Mormon Church over Prop 8.

The stage managed "kiss-ins" at Mormon temples were only the first act. As anyone who has been in Utah a half hour knows, the handcart is one of Mormonism's most heroic and emotional icons.

So, the gays figure, what more symbolic way to deliver petitions Wednesday calling for detente between gays and the LDS Church than in a wooden handcart, dragged heroically from This Is the Place Monument to Salt Lake City's Temple Square — the beating heart of the church.

More than 2,000 people have signed the petition to "seek to create a climate for reconciliation between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and gays and lesbians who have been affected by the policies, practices and politics of the Church."

Lordy, what's next in this political theater campaign — a "flock" of drag queens in sea gull costumes flying out to rescue the gay handcart company?