Bob, Kerry and I went out for a long blast on the 'bikes last night, up to Monte Christo. It was awesome. They're both on sport bikes, and I'm on a BMW R1150GS - a super traillie - and I was easily able to keep up with them as we hooned around the corners over 70mph up to the peak (over 9000ft?). The ride back was interesting. For the first time in 6 weeks, it rained in Salt Lake City, and we could see the storm from 20 miles away. The lightning was pretty amazing and somehow I managed to only get a couple of spots of rain - I missed the main downpour by about a minute. Sweet.
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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