Meanwhile it seems we're at war. Well - not quite, but by the end of the week. They've got a plane in Baghdad ready to evacuate the UN inspectors and Bush is giving a national address on TV tonight. I'm not sure he even knows why he's waging war any more. What will be the signal that the war is over? When Saddam leaves? When they find the WMD that have been planted by covert ops guys? When the whole planet is a smouldering mess?
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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