Eric Ethington and PRIDEinUtah Named CNN's "Most Intriguing Person"
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:Eric Ethington (Author) | March 18, 2012
Utah – I watched with interest last night as Paul Mero (of the lobbying group The Sutherland Institute) argued with reporters on Twitter, trying to get them to use his study “proving” that abstinence-only education works best. True study? Or bogus? Currently, there are a handful of districts in Utah which already teach abstinence-only education, [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 16, 2011
After repeated complaints, the ACLU is asking for LGBT students to report their schools if they are blocking access to LGBT websites on their school networks. Many schools won’t allow access to sites like the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network, but still allow anti-gay sites through. After receiving the above screenshot from a [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 25, 2011
A recently released report from the “Office of Special Counsel” has found that President Bush and his administrated consistently violated federal election laws by spending tax payer money on behalf of the Republican National Committee. Federal law dicatates that it is illegal to use tax payer monies to pay for political activities. But appears that [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | November 23, 2010
The Southern Poverty Law Center has released a new study based off of the FBI Hate Crimes statistics, revealing that the LGBT community is 14 times more likely to be the victim of a violent hate crime than other minorities. Scary stuff, but this is why we fight! Things are improving and we will keep [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | November 18, 2010
LAMBDA Legal has released their 2010 report on HIV, AIDS and the stigmatization of people who are suffering from this desease. As World AIDS Day approaches, it’s a fascinating read. See below. “It’s been 30 years since the CDC reported the first cases of HIV, and yet we have not come nearly far enough in [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | July 13, 2010
The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs has released their numbers for hate crimes reported in 2009. As you can guess, the numbers are bad.. this is not good! As a quick side note, Utah will be hosting a community meeting TONIGHT on this very topic! 6:30pm at the City Library Main Auditorium. Let your voice [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 14, 2010
Mid-day Summary for Day 4 of Prop 8 Trial. As reported by Lisa Keen: ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– It was mostly a numbers game in the courtroom this morning during Day 4 of the federal trial challenging Proposition 8—how many couples got married, how many dollars did they spend, how much tax revenue has been lost as a [...]
"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.