One Utah

Before signing off for the night, here’s a little comic relief from my new best friends, Margaret and Helen:
Has it occurred to anyone else that the Republican party has become the party of money, guns and sex? It seems to be the only things they think about. Who is having sex with who? [...]

Re-Posted from July 2006
Asking the opinion of the executive director of Evergreen International if there is scientific basis for homosexuality is akin to asking a chicken farmer for proof eggs are bad for you.The beguiling nature of the entire article is betrayed in the first sentence “the simple ‘born gay’ theory has faded from the [...]

In Mormonland where I live, nothing is more certain than that God loves families, eternally procreative Ward and June Cleaver clones with, as our Sutherland Institute so felicitously puts it, “a quiver full of kids.” A happily married husband and father of four myself, I too like families. What I’m having trouble understanding is where [...]

One of our readers here commented that he was too young to remember the Black Power fist symbol as he was growing up in a post-racist generation. But as a CBS News story points out, racism isn’t dead in the U.S., it’s just been in remission.
CBS/AP) Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting “Assassinate Obama.” Black figures [...]

Just when you though children are better off with a Mom and Dad.
Idaho students chant ‘assassinate Obama’ on school bus

Madison County, Idaho was once dubbed "the reddest place in America" by Salon, but that didn’t make it any less shocking when elementary school children started chanting "assassinate Obama" on the school bus.

According to [...]

Dan Savage Takes On Tony Perkins Over Prop 8

You don’t get to march in the public square, slime people, malign people and demagogue against people and then jump behind a bush and say, no God we’re a church.

Right on!

The Mormon Church has politicized itself with this movement and — in California to ban same-sex marriage. [...]

From the Chicago Tribune
Immediately, Catherine learned she was stupid for wearing a shirt with Republican John McCain’s name. Not merely stupid. Very stupid.
“People were upset. But they started saying things, calling me very stupid…
Then it got worse.

Exactly as it should be MUST BE! Its time to throw civility out the window. Olbermann has [...]

Colbert actually supports the LDS Church position! (and he really ripped into some gay guy too and he was pretty serious).
He also made Ken’s argument for why 70% of African Americans voted for Prop 8.
I think he’s gonna get in trouble Colbert. Yes I do.

Tuesday November 11, 2008
Proposition 8 Protests - [...]

It would be a good political move too.
The ACLU, along with others, filed a lawsuit in the California Supreme Court that will crush Prop. 8 and once and for all shut down the hateful social engineering that has so embarrassed loving Mormons.  (complaint here)
The press release reminds everyone that California Attorney General Jerry Brown honor [...]

I’m having trouble understanding why this LDS Church-owned newspaper would print this letter (LTE).
Is this guy really a member? And it he saying other members do not support Prop 8? Frank? Help me here.
Support or shut up
I am ashamed of the members of the LDS Church who opposed Proposition 8. [...]

Channel 4 reports that a Nebraska man faces possible excommunication from the LDS Church for supporting same sex marriage.
Let the excommunications begin. Every now and then the church sees fit to make a very public example of a few “dissidents” in order to keep the rest of the flock scared lest the [...]

Retraction and Update: The author of the poem linked herein was not authored by the same Richard Okleberries who hunts my dreams.

jux⋅ta⋅po⋅si⋅tion
[juhk-stuh-puh-zish-uhn]
–noun
1. an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast.
 
Inspired by Okelberries’ passion for poetry, I thought I would compile snippets of his [...]