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You can always count on the Deseret News to the print the stupidest letters one can imagine.

Kids need both mom and dad
It is fascinating that in the name of tolerance and love anyone not accepting the homosexual political agenda is hated and smeared. However, that doesn’t change the facts.
Marriage is, at base, a method [...]

Wrapping up my day with a birthday visit with my daughter, I decided to drive up State Street and see how the protest was going. It was amazing. Traffic was barely creeping along. I could only get as far as North Temple and the police directed me to the east. But [...]

by hekebolos
(update w/ video X2) Prop 8: DEVASTATING internal memo from the LDS Church
You can see from my previous diaries that I have been all over the issue of Mormon donations to Prop 8.  But just now, something positively devastating just fell into my lap.  And my source says there’s a lot more where this [...]

In 2000 the citizens of California overwhelmingly (61%) voted to affirm the traditional definition of marriage, the common definition of marriage that had prevailed since the founding of the state and the definition that has prevailed until recently in virtually every society around the world. What evolved thereafter was a live and let live [...]

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 [...]

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