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:Eric Ethington (Author) | September 1, 2011
San Francisco – This past week, I read an article in the Salt Lake Tribune about an openly-gay man in San Francisco who has just been named as a member of the Bishopric in his local Mormon congregation. Needless to say, I immediately tracked him down for an interview. Most of our readers know that [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | September 27, 2010
Oakland, CA – Marlin K Jensen, a high-ranking Mormon official in the “1st Quorumn of 70″ met with members of the local Oakland stake on Sept 19th. He listened while people passionately aired their grievences over the church’s involvement on Prop 8, and then issued an apology. Over 90 people attended the event to talk [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | August 31, 2010
SLC, UT – In part 2 of our post from yesterday about the Mormon (aka LDS) church’s story about Marishia, the now-reformed Lesbian who became an active member of the church, the bigoted church has the gall to compare homosexuality to being born with a physical defect. When I prayed to know why I was [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | August 30, 2010
SLC, UT – Several weeks ago, the Mormon (aka LDS) church began a national campaign of TV commercials called “And I’m A Mormon” designed as a huge PR stunt to decrease the negative light the church has been sinking into. But now it’s delving to new depths by trying to highlight LGBT members as if [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | June 24, 2010
Maine – The National Organization For Marriage (NOM) has been fighting tooth and nail since their “Yes On 1″ campaign last year which successfully repealed the new legislative-enacted same sex marriage law. They’re trying to prevent the state from being able to look at their books and see who’s funding them. Now the Campaign Finance [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | June 3, 2010
SLC, UT – Never thought I’d be saying this, but local crazy group America Forever has closed their doors and shut down their website! The word around the campfire is that Sandra Rodrigues (head of the kook family) was pulled into her Mormon Bishop’s office for the 2nd time and told very firmly that they [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | April 28, 2010
The popular Mormon porn site mormonboyz.com was hacked over the past week. The owner Paul Jackson, says that he thinks LDS Hackers are to blame. Ok, here’s the deal according to Paul: I had a pretty crazy week last week. MormonBoyz was first hacked Monday evening a week ago (the 19th). I’ve been talking with [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | April 13, 2010
Portland, Oregon – The Boy Scouts Of America have been ordered to pay $1.4 million to a child sexually abused by his Mormon Scout Leader. The trial caused a huge stir last year as the Scout Leader confessed to both the Mormon (LDS) church as well as Scout officials that he had abused at least [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | April 2, 2010
SLC – Utah’s first and historic Non-Discrimination Ordinances took effect today. These ground-breaking laws have already paved the way for other municipalities in Utah. From the SL Trib: “This has been a game changer,” said Valerie Larabee, director of the Utah Pride Center. “We do tend to wait for our big brothers to pave the [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 21, 2010
SLC – Last week the University of Utah hosted a debate on LGBT Rights And Family Law. But what started as a healthy conversation quickly set many teeth in the audience grinding as BYU Professor Lynn Wardle attacked Gays, Gay Families and Women in general. The debate was sponsored by the UofU club the “Outlaws,” [...]
"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.