The following report was originally published by Inkstick, a nonprofit news platform. It is reprinted here with permission.

In March, after Israel violated its internationally brokered ceasefire with the Palestinian armed group Hamas and resumed its war on Gaza, Nathan McLaughlin, a young Mormon in Salt Lake City, gathered with dozens of like-minded Latter-day Saints to denounce the genocide.

They organized a sit-in at the Utah State Capitol and a flyering campaign to lobby their co-religionists, calling for a Mormonism that foregrounds "the inherent nature of every human being as children of Heavenly Parents," McLaughlin told Inkstick.

When, as a teenager, he had set off to perform missionary service in Atlanta for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fellow Mormons had tol

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