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:Eric Ethington (Author) | October 18, 2012
Republican candidate for Congress in Utah’s 2nd District, Chris Stewart, is claiming in the Salt Lake Tribune that he never took any stimulus funds, but it turns out.. he’s lying. Earlier today, 2nd Congressional District candidate Jay Seegmiller pointed out the hypocrisy of his Republican opponent Chris Stewart campaigning against the stimulus, when he himself [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | July 19, 2012
After news broke today that a Utah Tea Party activist has been charged with raping 4 women, the amount of political rhetoric creeping out is disgusting. Look, can we all just calm down and drop the politics for a moment? After the story broke, several GOP activists took to twitter accusing the reporter who broke [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 22, 2012
Salt Lake City – I don’t know why, but I find my thoughts lingering on the Death Penalty this morning. There isn’t any particular case troubling me, but I wanted to put some thoughts down on why I cannot justify any rationality for state-killing. I suppose that each of us has felt the need for [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 16, 2011
Iowa – Former Speaker and now expected presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has been caught funneling over $350,000.00 into SPLC-certified anti-gay hate groups in the past year. Apparently someone didn’t get the memo that most people in this country aren’t anti-gay anymore. Last year, as NOM and the American Family Association (AFA) launched the campaign to oust [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 20, 2011
The Government Accountability Office has just released a report revealing that between 2004 and 2009, over $193,000,000 of tax payer’s money was spent on discharging 3,664 soldiers under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Breakdown below. Since 1993 when the policy was enacted, an estimated 14,000 troops were discharged. Any of you math whizzes want to work [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | September 30, 2010
Got my twice-daily newsletter from the American Family Association this afternoon. Normally just flick through it looking for fodder – but this one caught my eye. A list of what the AFA calls their ‘achievements’ for the month of September against them there evil gay agenda! Ok let’s see.. AFA continues to expose The Home [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | September 27, 2010
Ever heard of the Aministration for Children and Families? Me neither.. it’s a federal agency that funds religious groups who help people have healthier marriages. Well the agency has no over-sight, and have funneled millions of your tax dollars to anti-gay political groups like the Family Research Council. According to their most recent report. The Administration for [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | August 17, 2010
PRIDEinUtah just received an update from Joe Solomnese over at HRC. Solomnese is telling followers that despite repeated requests and encouragements, Target is refusing to take ANY corrective action on their donations to anti-gay PAC’s and candidates. From HRC Email: Gregg Steinhafel, Target CEO With your signatures in hand, HRC has been talking directly with [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | August 6, 2010
A big ordeal has been made of Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel donating $150k to groups supporting anti-gay candidates. But a new report shows that not only is this the first time he’s done it, but almost every top executive at the company has donated to various anti-gay causes, including Yes On 8. The truth is [...]
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 [...]
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