Tucked into the president's schedule this afternoon: a closed-press meeting with the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—better known as the Mormon church—and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the highest-ranking Mormon in the U.S. government.
Obama recently appointed Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, a Mormon Republican, to be ambassador to China. Huntsman stunned Utah's political establishment earlier this year by announcing his support for legalized civil unions for gay couples. The move came shortly after the LDS church had helped spearhead the campaign to pass Proposition 8, California's gay marriage ban....