The Absolute Worst that Utah Has to Offer
What’d you do this weekend? If you’re like us, you probably blacked out from drinking too much candied liquor and awoke, coughing up glitter and wearing nothing more than a feather boa. That’s right – it was Pride weekend in Utah. The biggest news to happen this weekend was the simple fact that several hundred [...]
If you’re a liberal-leaning Mormon and politics come up, you love bringing up Harry Reid. Here we have a Mormon who is not only a Democrat, but he currently holds one of the highest positions in Congress—Senate Majority Leader. You see!? We’re not all uber-conservative Republicans; some of us are somewhat-less-conservative Democrats! For those of you [...]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently released a poorly-done video* explaining the organization’s alleged political neutrality. Using a whiteboard animation (even “animation” is a generous term) it discusses what the church means when it says it’s politically neutral—that they don’t officially endorse parties or candidates—as well as what it doesn’t mean when [...]
Utah Democrats have recognized the inevitable – that they must begin appealing to the broader Mormon base in Utah or risk going extinct. Like the lung fish, struggling to breathe on the swampy shores of the cradle of life inexplicably zapped into existence 4,000 years ago (Thanks Jesus!), the Utah Democratic chairman Jim Dabakis has begun reaching [...]
Um, as you totally already know, the LDS Church does not, like, you know, get involved in politics. Like, ever. Duh. Tubular. Let’s go to the mall. In fact, the LDS Church is so far removed from politics, that they’ve even released a press release highlighting their political neutrality* [emphasis added]: “The Church’s mission is [...]
A BYU-sanctioned panel last week put three homosexual students and one bisexual student in front of hundreds of faculty, staff, and other students to discuss their experience being gay at BYU. By most* accounts, it was a successful, calm, educational experience. Each member of the panel was able to talk about their own thoughts regarding [...]
A recent Gallup poll ranked the 50 states by religiosity—based on worship attendance, frequency of prayer, and belief in God—and Utah came in 2nd place, with Mississippi taking the pious cake. For me, the most immediate humor of this poll was how backwards the religious of each state think the other is. For instance, all the Bible-thumping, praise-the-Lord-ing, [...]
Did you have a good Conference Weekend? I hope so. It was so very inspiring to hear (and live-tweet!) the latest news from the LDS Church’s semiannual shareholders meeting. Sure looking forward to that dividend distribution in August! Anyways, chock full of spunk* and inspiration, we thought we’d get back to the news. The SLTrib [...]
This article from the SL Trib is certain to set you off this morning. Before reading it, I recommend you take your state-issued Prozac. Done? Ok. In summary, it examines the influence the LDS Church indirectly exerts over the state legislature. I say indirectly because, according to IRS Tax Exempt law, the LDS Church is [...]
I’m not sure if you heard, but yesterday was the glorious Second Coming of Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior the grand opening of a mall. Like billions of other Salt Lake City residents, Telestial State was in attendance. And we have to admit: it’s a really pretty mall. There are waterfalls and a sky [...]