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Apparently the LDS / Mormon Church supporting the Salt Lake City ordinances last week, banning discrimination against the LGBT (gay) community in matters of housing and employement, is the equivalent of a 500 lb loaf of pumpkin bread. Huh… maybe all I had to do was bake more?
In an unexpected announcement today, Utah State Senator [...]

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Speculation on what will happen with Salt Lake City’s new Fair Workplace and Housing laws in the upcoming session is flying. But some new insights into the LDS / Mormon Church’s plans are shocking!
Since the LDS / Mormon Church announced its support of the Salt Lake City ordinances to ban discrimination of the LGBT (Lesbian, [...]

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With most of the country still under shock at Salt Lake City’s human rights victory, the city council’s vote is impacting the rest of Utah as well.
Over the past week we’ve heard rumblings now from both Salt Lake County and Park City that their own ordinances providing workplace and housing rights / protections are soon [...]

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Silence

This week , this anniversary.. we mark a year from our rape in California. We now add a new atrocity, the rape of our civil rights in Maine. And what do I hear? Silence. Silence from the once-again victims.
Where are you? We update our facebook and twitter pages with “I’m disappointed in the voters of [...]

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A conservative activist is questioning some of the conclusions Christian researcher George Barna reached in his “Spiritual Profile of Heterosexual Adults.”
The new Barna survey of heterosexual adults finds that 27 percent qualify as born-again Christians and 43 percent have an “orthodox, biblical perception of God.” According to Barna, “People who portray straight adults as godless, [...]

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I would like to introduce a new author to the blog. I met Andrew Love a few weeks ago, and was impressed by his style. I attempted a poor imitation of my own a few days ago, and decided it would be best to turn him loose to post on his own and see what [...]

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Today I would like to pose a serious question. I have been doing some research in light of some of the recent political activism regarding heterosexuality. Some people in this country seem to believe that heterosexuality is alright, that somehow people are “born this way.”
I do not believe such. My personal beliefs that I was [...]

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When Hope is hard to Find
By Reverend Tom Goldman of First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City
Easter 2009
We had a ton of snow this winter up Emigration Canyon. My wife, Mary, thinks this is a beautiful pristine sight, but our opinions differ mainly because only one of us is in charge of snow removal.
We have [...]

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GOD THE ECONOMIST

By Rev. Tom Goldsmith 
In the book of Acts of the Apostles, we get a graphic picture of the early Christian community right up front. In the second chapter we learn: “The faithful all lived together and owned everything in common; they sold their goods and possessions and shared out of the proceeds among themselves according [...]

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In the past week or so, it has come to light that then presidential candidate Barack Obama wrote a letter to an LGBTQ advocate group in California denouncing Prop 8 and similar amendments in other states. According to the Bay Area Reporter, the letter was sent to Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club in June, [...]

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