I’m expecting an Utah paper editorial separation of church and state any day now. I’d bet dollars for donuts that it’ll be in the Salt Lake Tribune, too. The Deseret News just doesn’t roll that way. Yesterday, the LDS Church openly supported Governor Herbert’s signing of HB 116 by sending Presiding Bishop H. David Burton to […]
When the LDS Church shows up for a press conference, does it jeopardize tax exempt status?
March 16, 2011 by
The Utah Compact on Immigration
November 12, 2010 by
If you care about immigration, an interesting thing happened a couple days ago. Some of Utah‘s leaders–religious, political, and secular–joined together to propose an a set of principles on to guid the immigration reform discussion. It is seen as an alternative to recent proposals such as those passed in Arizona and proposed for Utah by […]
Polygamists in the news; Kingstons running for office
October 8, 2010 by
Polygamy is a unique aspect of Utah’s history, a piece the past that many wish they could just run away from, especially the Mormons, if just because of the mockery that it seems to draw from those only loosely familiar with how it fits into their history and doctrine. These days, in contrast to what […]
It’s true: you can sue for anything…
August 27, 2010 by
Image by striatic via Flickr Winning the lawsuit is another story. The latest in our nation’s history of obnoxious and frivolous law suits is that of the Mormon suing his own church for injuries incurred while performing proxy baptisms in an LDS Temple. He claims he was hurt because the people he was baptizing were […]
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