One Utah

Last week, I saw this post  Leading America Into the Wildnerness, at Kos:
Whether it’s finance or science, health care or education, America isn’t leading the way — it’s not even pointing the direction.  Instead, we’re on the sidelines, trying to squeeze the grip of our still considerable military leadership ever tighter, only to have more [...]

I love the scienceblogs!
There’s a vigorous debate taking place about the connection between the evolution denier piece of crap film Expelled and Holocaust denial.  Some folks are saying the deliberate and dishonest connection between evolutionary theory and the Holocaust amounts to a form of denialism.  Other folks are saying it is profoundly and hugely dishonest [...]

By way of full disclosure:
I am a descendant of James Stephens Brown , Mormon pioneer and polygamist (not to be confused with his uncle, Captain James S. Brown of the Mormon Battalion, though both served in the Mormon Battalion). His life’s story was published by the Deseret News, as The Life of Pioneer after [...]

The debacle of the clash of civilizations in the Texas raids upon the Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints continues past the point of severe justice. Whatever Samuel Huntington thinks, no one wins such wars.
Savagery exists now, played out with the goading of the news media, in 24/7 mode, driven to make news of the most lurid [...]

You are not the victims here.  I know this is difficult for you to grasp as you deal with the pain of being separated from your children and having your life turned upside down.  I cannot fathom the emotions you are feeling at this time, and most of you were probably child brides raped by [...]

A thrilling aspect of this election cycle is that practically every day I get email from either Bill or Hillary Clinton.
Never before have I had this sort of intimacy with an American President and an international celebrity.
Just this afternoon Bill took time out from the campaign to send me the following note:

The massive raid upon a polygamist compound in Texas is one of the major violations of human rights in this country. This atrocity, shocking in its initial sweep, hugely over-broad , of children and their parents, gets worse day by day. Now, the pitiful last means of parents to communicate with their [...]

Over at Pandagon, Amanda has an amazing post about the FLDS. She describes the FLDS compound as a rape farm. But, my favorite part where she describes the radical fundamentalist mindset:
It’s really their worldview, that posits that men rule over women and children, that is the path towards growing and swapping teenage girls [...]

The Texas Polygamist raid is a PR disaster for the Mormon church.
Last night, Larry King did his best impression of a journalist and interviewed people who have left polygamy - all with the LDS Salt Lake temple in the background.  The repetition of LDS/Mormon and polygamist/polygamy is undoing decades of work by mainstream Mormons to present [...]

The science behind evolution denialism is junk, and in many cases, it’s not just junk science, it anti-science. The textbooks at question in the UC case I talked about the other day were published, in one notable case, by Bob Jones University. The book itself proclaimed that any where that science disagreed with [...]

Some basics:  Some individual parents, a Chrisitian indoctrination center school and the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) filed a lawsuit alleging that the University of California was discriminating against them; UC has said that some of the courses these groups teach do not meet their requirements.  Among those courses are courses on creationism pretending [...]

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