One Utah

According to Paul “Sorry-ma’am-this-is-my-job-someone’s-got-to-do-it” Mero, chief of Utah’s conservative Sutherland Institute, the state has a vested interest in your sex organs. Your children, you see, are the state’s means of production, and your sex organs, being the means of producing the means, are therefore a national asset subject to oversight. Lots of oversight. The more [...]

I am so pleased with my response to Ken on McCain, I thought I would top post it if only to shake things up around here.
What you are seeing Ken is Republican Buyer’s Remorse for Bush. You see, Bush — being the worst fuckup in the history of America — has virtually ended any chance [...]

The Iowa caucuses are on January 3. The New Hampshire primary is scheduled for January 8. I voted in the Utah primary today. Yes, they are already mailing out vote-by-mail ballots.
OK, you can vote on Election Day if you want to, but why wait? Register for vote-by mail. To cast [...]

When I first invited Ed Firmage (website, bio) to write for OneUtah, I asked him to write about this new canard of the religious right. Professor (Emeritus) Firmage is a preeminent Constitutional Scholar and a kind of Born again Mormon turned devout Christian.
Until Dubbya, I had never heard this new idea that the Separation [...]

I’m going way out on a limb, folks, but I know my kindly friends will catch me if I fall. Today is Human Rights Day, everywhere but in Deseret. Some years ago, in the Baptist chapel on 13th East, dedicated to Sam and Aline Skaggs, we met on Martin Luther King, Jr., day, [...]

I introduced my dear friend, Plasticman, in one of my recent descents into the Inferno. Plasticman lives in what once was the Hotel Utah. It now houses Plasticman and his many wives. Each office… as it may appear to the masses on the outside looking in…actually houses one wife. Plasicman has [...]

Mitt wants to run with the Fox and bay with the Hounds. One year ago, Mitt seemed to be a beacon of light to a Republican Party somewhere to the right of Germany in the 1930’s. Now, he’s veering so far to the right that he might just lose Utah County. Of [...]

As I predicted here, LDS doctrine will come under close scrutiny by the national media.

h/t HuffPost

A sane, if highly flawed, discussion of Mitt Romney’s “Faith In America” speech on the McLaughlin Group was cold-cocked into the realm of crazy-faced anger by guest panelist Lawrence O’Donnell this morning, who started off by criticizing Romney, but soon [...]

I’ve read the Good Book, cover to cover, and I love it. I’ve always had a love affair with holy writ. But I don’t get it.
The Bible says, time after time after time, that we should honor the outcast, grant places of refuge for the refugee, in our hearts, our homes, [...]

In his lousy speech yesterday, Mitt Romney said of people like me, “It is as if they’re intent on establishing a new religion in America – the religion of secularism. They’re wrong,”
He was talking about people who would exclude religion from public institutions and apparently, create their own religion.
Ignoring the stupidity of that statement for [...]

Mitt gave the best speech of his career. He actually showed the emotion he feels. This is the Mitt Romney I knew when he was a student at BYU and dad’s counselor in a Mormon ward.
Mitt’s speech is just possibly the best given by any of his Party. He speaks with a [...]

So today’s much hyped Mitt’s Mormon Speech (soon to be trademarked) is a miss. Mitt attempting to pull off George W. Bush’s dog whistle politics and make his Mormonism unthreatening. The speech was supposed to be some major address and it’s really just a variation on the stump speech. Most Americans will [...]