It's going downhill fast. The UN have just issued an emergency evacuation order for their staff to leave Iraq. Robin Cook, the leader of the house of commons just resigned too. Two more of Blair's government are threatening to resign by tonight too. Also it turns out that yet another of the pieces of "evidence" that Bush & Blair are using to justify a war, was faked. The "evidence" about Iraq trying to buy nuclear materials from Africa and other nations was an outright lie. This is worse than Monica Lewinski in terms of grounds for impeachment. Bush has flat lied to the world to justify a war that doesn't need to happen. The first pre-emptive war in America's history. And maybe the last.
The non-separation of the LDS church and Utah state.
Look - I understand that mormons think gays are somehow evil, subhumans. I understand that the LDS won't tolerate gays, doesn't like them and thus won't marry them. But for local government to overturn a supreme court ruling about gay marriage is taking it too far. This is religious persecution on a par with the dark ages. The church doesn't like gays, so it leans on its members in government to do everything possible to prevent them from having the basic rights afforded other couples who want to marry. In other words, the LDS church is forcing it's (wrong) opinion about the LGBT community on everyone, via state and local laws that it has had passed and enforced on its behalf. Why should non-religious people be forced to abide by the opinion of a religious cult that they have no affiliation with? Apart from anything else, the uber-conservatives in this state are always the first ones to bitch when something even slightly unconstitutional happens, yet here they are r...
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