on Stop Screwing With The Classics: Dirty Dancing Remake In The Works! at 14:24 08/19/2009

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!! Do not mess with a classic and an 80's Hollywood staple! No one can touch Patrick Swayze - ever!

on Dear Utah at 13:47 08/14/2009

Once again, I hope to somehow educate a few of you about Utah. UTAH DOES NOT ALLOW MULTIPLE MARRIAGES!!!!!!!!! Since prior to becoming a state in the 1800's, polygamy has been outlawed in Utah. Members of the FLDS church and other similar churches that practice polygamy do so either illegally or by only being legally married to one wife at a time, usually the newest wife. Also, 14 year olds can no longer legally marry in Utah. The minimum age is 16 and requires guardian consent - just like most other states. Also, to educate you all just a little bit more, the main FLDS compound is not even in Utah - IT'S IN ARIZONA! Polygamy is not the norm or accepted in society in my state. So please get your facts right! Again, I personally absolutely support same sex marriage. So please allow me, a Utah resident born and raised, to prove Utah is not filled with what you consider discriminatory haters!

on Dear Utah at 12:16 08/14/2009

Ok, once again I feel a need to defend my home state of Utah. YES Utah does have one of the strictest constitutional amendments banning gay marriage. YES Utah's majority population does not support gay marriage, as evidenced by the passage of the state constitutional amendment banning marriage and civil unions of same sex couples. HOWEVER - that majority is not as overwhelming as many people seem to think. Statistically is counts as a majority, but not 100% of the state! Utah is also home to a fast growing number of individuals that AVIDLY support same sex marriage, such as myself, and perhaps a surprise to many of you, has an ever increasing number of homosexuals living in the state. I have read census reports comparing the ever growing gay population in Salt Lake City to San Francisco. So please note that this article is about a tiny little newspaper in Southern Utah - not about the entire population of Utah. So icky, icky poo to the newspaper, not Utah.

on And Now, Some Good News at 14:21 07/22/2009

Fabulous to hear! We are all praying for him!

on California Supreme Court Upholds Discriminatory Proposition 8 at 14:28 05/26/2009

BELIEVE IT OR NOT - BUT THIS MAY BE A GOOD THING! Now that the issue has gone before the California State Supreme Court and been upheld, the issue can now be appealed to the US Supreme Court. Taking this to a federal level is absolutely what needs to happen so this issue can be handled on a nation wide basis. There is also better hope for Prop 8 being overturned on the federal level because of previous US Supreme Court decisions. Several years ago the Court finally overruled a long standing decision that did not allow privacy rights for same sex couples. It is this overturning that has led to many developments for same sex couple rights. The decisions from that case will greatly affect the Court's decision should Prop 8 go before them. The only concern is that the Court will view the issue as political, rather than constitutional, and deny the cert. But based on previous precedent created by the court in the last several years, there is an excellent chance that won't happen and they will grant the cert and hear the case. If the Court finds Prop 8 unconstitutional, that in turn will also invalidate many other similar State constitutional amendmentsSo yes it absolutely sucks that the CA Supreme Court beheld Prop 8 (I'll be interested to read their decision to find out the legal reasoning). But this allows the issue to move up to the federal level - where is needs to be once and for all.