Church & State (2018)
Church & State is the improbable story of a brash, inexperienced gay activist and a tiny Salt Lake City law firm that joined forces to topple Utah’s gay marriage ban. The film’s ride on the bumpy road to equality in Utah offers a glimpse at the Mormon church’s influence in state politics and the squabbles inside the gay community that nearly derailed a chance to make history. Church & State is a story of triumph, setback and a little-known lawsuit that should have failed, but instead paved the way for a U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized gay unions nationwide.
- Date of release
- 2018-08-10
- TMDB
- 4.8 / 10 (9)
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Holly Tuckett, Kendall Wilcox
Casting
- Jennifer Lynn Dobner — Herself - Reporter, the Salt Lake Tribune
- Mark Lawrence — Himself - Founder, Restore Our Humanity
- Jim Magleby — Himself - Lawyer - Managing Partner, Magleby & Greenwood
- Taylor Petrey — Himself - Religious Studies Professor, Kalamazoo College
- Peggy Tomsic — Herself - Lead Lawyer for the Kitchen Case - Partner, Magleby & Greenwood
- Derek Kitchen — self
- Moudi Sbeity — self
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