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:Eric Ethington (Author) | April 7, 2011
The latest research from the Williams Institute at UCLA indicates that there are more than 9,000,000 people in this country who identify as LGBT. The number of people who report having same sex attraction, but don’t identify as LGBT is even higher. Always interesting to see how many people report having same sex attractions, but [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | November 30, 2010
A new poll from the Pew Research Center shows that not only the majority of Americans, but also the majority of religious Americans favor a repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. So… when is McShame McCain going to catch on? This new poll shows that as of November 2010, 73% of Americans either support or [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 29, 2010
From Huffington Post: Fifty percent of Americans say they’d support having an openly gay President of the United States, a new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll shows. Forty-four percent would be opposed to having a gay president in office. The poll asked respondents how they’d feel about having openly gay contenders in a variety of positions, [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | November 13, 2009
You know how some people just don’t know how to shut up? Yeah…. for the Rodrigues family, aka “America Forever.” That time was just after they got out of diapers. With their constant spewing against the LGBT community, they have now become virtually one of the biggest PRO LGBT groups around! With every other anti-LGBT [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | November 12, 2009
You know, never thought I’d see the day when Paul Mero and the Sutherland Institute split from the LDS (Mormon) Church. Earlier this week LDS Inc supported the Salt Lake City Council in passing fair workplace and housing ordinances, making it illegal in Salt Lake City to deny a person housing or a job based [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | July 19, 2009
Today marked the 3rd protest over the Mormon Church’s treatment of two gay men who were caught kissing on the church-owned main street plaza. But unlike the past two protests which were filled with song, smiles and overall good-feelings this protest turned ugly quickly with shouts of anger and arguments. What was the difference? “America [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 20, 2009
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints released a statement today regarding Senator Chris Buttars’ statements on homosexuality made earlier this year. “From the outset, the Church’s position has always been to engage in civil and respectful dialogue on this issue. Senator Buttars does not speak for the Church.” This came from the [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 15, 2009
Full page hate (Story by Drinking Liberally) A group calling themselves “America Forever” pulled a full-page ad in the Sunday Salt Lake papers warning Utahns of the “homosexual movement”. In the Tribune it’s on page D12, and I’m sure that it’s in the Deseret News too. The ad is full of lies and fear tactics [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 12, 2009
The American Family Association (AFA), long time anti-civil rights group are now enraged that their latest TV special, “Speechless; Silencing the Christians,” is not being aired everywhere that they want it to. Speechless began as a mini-series, but then was re-tooled into a 1 hour special that the AFA has been trying to get several [...]
"Eric, trying to have this (civil rights) conversation with you is ultimately like trying to teach a pig to dance, it just annoys the pig. So Eric, sorry to annoy you."
-Paul Mero, The Sutherland Institute.