I'm all for snow - it's fun. And now it's a week after the event, I can look back on it with some humour. Believe me though, by the third day without power, 24 inches of fresh powder in the driveway and burying the house simply wasn't funny. I mean come on - that's a retarded amount of snow to get in such a short period of time! And trust me - no amount of willpower is going to get 2ft of snow out of your drive with an electric snowblower during a blackout.....
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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