I agree with you but this specific topic was not about government policy but LDS policy.
OK, I'm not sure how you missed it, but from beginning to end, this posted article covers...
..."laws" [first sentence of article]
...and "ordinances" [last sentence of article].
So, unlike this parsing "dance" move approach you've just taken, the whole thrust of this deals with the Lds church coming alongside these GOVERNMENTAL laws and ordinances -- not vice versa. (Unless you're telling us that SLC City Council is only some formal rubber-stamp extended operation of the church, and that all SLC City Council was doing was codifying new CHURCH policy -- expressing it in customized GOVERNMENTAL language.)
Ya wanna tell us why you think the Lds church, whenever it's socially pressured, simply caves? (Polygamy in 1890; blacks as priesthood holders in 1978; now this? A Prop 8 triggered response where the Lds church is perhaps doing a "trial social manifesto?")
And what does that say about the Mormon god? A god of appeasement? A god who caves when Americans get too riled up? A god who was once a man who just can't take the social pressure of a relatively small country compared to the rest of the universe?