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    Time for Republicans to make their peace with LGBTQ rights

    by Mary Sanchez, Tribune Content Agency Dec 14, 2018 3 minutes

    Perhaps it was all those holiday wishes for "Peace on earth" and "Goodwill to mankind" that crept into the mind of retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch.

    In his farewell address to Congress this week, the Utah Republican floated an idea at odds with a large part of his party's base, among whom Evangelical Christians are disproportionately represented.

    Hatch, a Mormon, said religious conservatives could make peace with affirming the equal rights of LGBTQ Americans.

    "Pluralism shows us a better way," he

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