Yay. Let's hear it for mother nature. And Utah power. Because of the power outage during the heavy snowfall in December, a massive wad of ice built up on the back of our roof. The temperature has been below freezing for 24 days and last night, it went above freezing. And the ice started to melt. Into the kitchen through one of the light fixtures. So I spent most of last night and all this morning up a ladder hacking the ice with a trowel and trying to thaw it with ice-melt. I got a lot of it off, but the stuff which had already backed-up under the eaves is still melting into the kitchen. Hopefully it aint doing too much damage but it will be spring before I can find out for sure. :-(
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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