One Utah

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 [...]

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 [...]

Gee, its too bad Mitt Romney decided to pander to the evangelist community in his speech on religion. Directly following a statement about the constitution’s prohibition against a religious test for office, he re-interpreted the 1st amendment using the now tired canard suggesting that the separation clause somehow does not mean God should be left [...]

Hey, blame it on the media. We love our garment wearing friends and neighbors. We refer to them in mixed company and affectionately as “magic pajamas”. But the media does not do “tolerance well”

At great cost to the Church of Latter Day Saints, Republic presidential candidate and flip-flopper extraordinare Mitt Romney has decided [...]

A long time ago, when I was exhausted and manic from cancer medication, sleep medication, pain med’s for a back with a ton of titanium in place of a spine, and with a mysterious deep pain in the lower abdomen, next to where my prostate was before it was taken out, I was invited to [...]

I’m top posting my response to the answers/response to my questions of one local, I believe LDS, who calls himself Alienated Wannabe (AW).
This discussion is important, because it illustrates the misconceived positions behind the status quo political posture here in Utah. The simplistic one informed by a hybrid of evangelism and right-wing talking points, [...]

Willard (Mitt) Romney has a problem, according to Steve Benen on Talking Points Memo. Political pundits are waiting for him to deliver a speech similar to the one by John F. Kennedy in 1960, declaring that “I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.” The problem is, [...]