One Utah

Just when you think the McCain campaign couldn’t get more incompetence than piteous Palin prank, some plurality of criminally stupid McCain advisers let him skewer himself on SNL tonight.

Is this the same genetic defect that will probably elect Jason Chaffetz in the second congressional district.? There are even a few enlightened conservatives freaking on [...]

h/t Troy Williams
Lets be honest. The LDS church should lose their tax-exempt status by the most conservative reading of the law.
Lets also be clear the preponderance of modern, good Mormons, though silent, are not proud of the LDS church’s intrusion into the lives people, families, and the rights of all Americans.

Ed Firmage has spoken [...]

A disturbing report. Hate crimes reported in Utah jumped from 35 in 2006 to 55 in 2007. See SL Trib and KSL.
Nationwide, hate crimes reported were down about 1 percent. But in Utah they are up a whopping 80 percent. Some of this may be accounted for by increased willingness to [...]

So yesterday I said to a coworker, “You know you can do early voting right?”
She said, “I’m not registered. But I know who is going to win. The Bible says a black man will win. And he will use devious words.”
“Do you really believe that?”
“I do.”
I had to stop myself from saying, [...]

Rep. Michelle Bachmann’s crazy ass claim that there are anti-American members of Congress, raving lunatics claiming Obama is Satan’s candidate for President, raving right wing loonies assuring us that the economic crash is the fault of poor people who want to own houses, right wing columnist claiming in all apparent seriousness that Barack Obama is [...]

In the “Are you fucking kidding me?” file, we find today’s commentary from the house organ of the American Family Association. This woman didn’t invent the crazy, she has however perfected it.
This election long ago ceased to be a partisan battle between Republicans and Democrats. It really isn’t a contest over big and small [...]

Troy Williams has encapsulated what will no doubt be the LDS Church’s last stand on the Same-Sex Marriage debate in California.

It’s time to call out the Mormon temple marriage for what it really is; the ritualistic humiliation of women. It is a ceremony we queers would never want to emulate.
Having been born LDS (and [...]

Most racist use coded language, others just say it.

It was founded upon ideas which have been adopted into Christian dogma.

If you read only one article this week, read this one:
Suddenly, the doctor was at the door to my mother’s room again. He waved me out into the hall. He needed a medical directive. Immediately. Her vital signs were tanking. If we were going to put a tube in her, and put her on machines [...]

I stumbled upon this video and was impressed by its classic neo-con-esq, fear-peddling quality.
It is important evidence of the kind of gratuitous deception that has been allowed and swallowed whole by many of our fellow countrymen. People like Sarah Palin who have never had a passport and therefore sense of proportion or context, just fear.

The problem is Gov. Avon Lady, she takes the Old Testament literally too, and in that one, God is an insecure, rage-filled hybrid of Bobby Knight and Suge Knight. He’s been alive forever and He has anger issues. He’s like John McCain if John McCain could fart hail. He’s pro-slavery, pro-polygamy and homophobic and he’ll [...]