One Utah

Sunday, the Tribune ran this article about declining support in Utah for the Iraq war.  Highlights:
Jeffrey Jones wasn’t surprised to see that a two-year compilation of Gallup polls showed American Mormons, more than any other religious group over that period, believed the United States was right to invade Iraq.
A January poll by The Salt Lake [...]

Molly Ivins called the Texas the national laboratory for bad government - and with their plan to pay women $500 for their babies, they’re still leading the pack of incredibly bad state government.  Utah and North Dakota, however, are rapidly and rabidly competing to take the title of laboratory for bad government.
Utah - as you [...]

Psychology and science made their debut as American weapons of war in 1916. President Woodrow Wilson, a Southern Democrat and avowed racial terrorist launched, “the Committee on Public Information.” That same year, President Wilson welcomed a parade of several hundred thousand hooded white men at the White House. The original masters of Amerikan terror held [...]

Thanks to Utah legislator Paul Ray, Utah is once again the focus of national derision. The following article appeared on the Huffington Post last week. The audio of Paul Ray’s comments are in the NPR story.
But What If Your Wife Gets an Abortion in a Bank? Elayne Boosler 02.09.2007
Dear Huff Potables, this isn’t [...]

As part of an earlier discussion, Caveat asked:
“How do we steer our ponderous educational contraption towards a more humane and less fundamentalist, path?”
With regard to public education, it’s important to understand that there is a swath of the American public that distrusts public education. To these folks, education is problematic because it teaches things [...]

Chances are good that a gay Utah teen was thrown out of his house by his parents today.  His parents, believing that being gay is sinful, wrong, a choice, and that his just going through a phase, are comforting themselves by reminding themselves that being gay is “un-natural.”  Safe within a system of prejudiced beliefs, [...]

Hat tip to Jill at feministe.
There’s so many things wrong with this!
TAMPA, Fla. - A woman who told police she had been raped was jailed for two days after officers found an old warrant accusing her of failing to pay restitution for a 2003 theft arrest.
But that’s not the worst of it.

While she was behind [...]

34 years ago today the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade.  In honor of that, a number of feminist bloggers have declared today Blog For Choice Day and encouraged people to discuss their reasons for being prochoice.  For a complete list or participants visit here, at Bushvcoice.com.
Elizabeth Anne Wood has a great post discussing her reasons for [...]

Thanks to Ed and Part of the Plan for digging this up.
Ed asks, “This is what the fundies and bible-thumpers are all up in arms about. It won’t help his case at all. I wonder how many of Utah’s Religious Right will have second thoughts now?”

Free agency Ed, free agency.
Jeremy has another [...]

So seriously, there was no way I could let this one pass without commenting.
It seems that 95% of Americans have had premarital sex.  Even more interesting, the rate has been stable since the 1950s.  It gets better - by their 40’s 99% of Americans have had sex.  Amanda as pandagon wins the award for pithiest response:
the [...]

Some years ago, an ex and I were in Las Vegas; as we walked down the Strip, we were able to take as many of the ads, cards, pamphlets and “newspapers” we wanted.  All of them were advertising for sex workers.  Literally, a credit and a phone call would have been enough to purchase the [...]

From time to time from “pro-lifers”* use the phrase “contraceptive mentality.”  Talk2action and pandagon have both mentioned/quoted this phrase - which is what brought it to my attention.  When I did a web search, I found links to the American Life League so I’m guessing their the ones who came up with this little phrase.
“Contraceptive [...]