***WAR NEWS*** The US has begun airlifting troops, tanks and equipment for their 1st Infantry Division into northern Iraq after those 1,000 paratroopers secured a key airfield in the country's Kurdish-controlled zone. An ABCNEWS reporter has indicated that the Iraqis are abandoning their positions near the town of Chamchamal in northwestern Iraq. We don't know yet if these guys were regular members of the Iraqi military. The US has admitted a "glitch" in the Patriot missile system is to blame for them shooting down a UK fighter, and targetting a US fighter. That's a pretty big fuckin' glitch!
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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