One Utah

I expected very little from this public relations bull-shit, and I got less. My grandfather, Hugh B. Brown, as chairman of the Democratic Party when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president, travelled to Southern Utah to speak to a very large group of Democrats (back when the good guys had the majority, even in Utah, now the reddest state in lthe Union). He saw a manure pile, very high. He knew a genuine religious podium when he saw, and smelled it. He mounted the manure pile, and commenced: “Fellow citizens. I salute you from this Republican Platform!”

Mitt Romney, you’re no Jack Kennedy. You’re no Hugh B. Brown. Given your new positions on gays, women, war, and an evident hatred for truth and peace, I don’t recognize your Mormonism. I didn’t think I’d live to see the day when George Romney’s son would stand to the right of the racist, sexist, most homophobic, war-loving religious leadership in the United States of America. You bring the Jihad home. We need a good Muhammad-like Muslim to run for president. She may just be sufficiently suffused, as a person of the Book, to let Mitt into her Cabinet. She may have the heart to forgive you. I’m a novice at forgiveness.

In any event, Pace e’bene. Shalom. Saalam. May the Peace of Christ be with you, this day, and always.

Ed Firmage
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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