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:Eric Ethington (Author) | March 16, 2012
UPDATE: After this post was written, and at 8pm at night on a Friday, Governor Herbert did, in fact, veto HB363. Salt Lake City – Twitterverse was buzzing last night with the news that the majority of delegates elected in the GOP Caucuses may be pro-Hatch. Now that he knows who he’ll face at convention, [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 8, 2011
Denver, Colorado – Last night the Senate Judicial Committee advanced the bill legalizing Civil Unions by a vote of 6-3. The bill now moves on to the full Senate. One woman tried to stop the advancement, testifying to the Senators about the differences between a vagina and an anus. Video below. Not really much I [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | December 21, 2010
Oh good grief, how much further into lunacy is this man going to fall? Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) is still trying to convince everyone that gay soldiers will silently slip into other’s bunks at night. Hey Louie, you’re aware repeal already passed right? Watch it below.
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 12, 2010
A study done by an online dating service OkCupid measured the sexuality of all 3.2 million users. The study measured the differences between straight and gay people in many different fields including how often they have sex. What did they find? We’re all the same. Tipped by PRIDEinUtah reader Deb Henry Other factors included in [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | September 7, 2010
Fantastic journalism by The New Civil Rights Movement reveals an interview done with Glenn Beck where he admits the only reason he converted to Mormonism was so his wife would sleep with him. And THESE are the pious moral people who look down there noses at US? OK, I’ll connect the dots here, ala Beck [...]
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) | February 6, 2009
Tonight I attended the Sutherland Institute’s “Sacred Ground” kickoff meeting. For those not familiar, this is the newly formed opposition to Equality Utah’s Common Ground Initiative. This post is mostly going to read like a journal I fear, as there is a lot of information to get through. To start off, the “gays” were the [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 27, 2009
Today the Utah Senate Judiciary Interim Committee denied the first of the Common Ground Initiative bills, proposing wrongful death benefits for same-sex couples 4 to 2. The committee, led by such high-public names like Michael Waddoups and Chris Buttars heard extensive argument about the (very familiar) slippery slope that these rights may land the legislature [...]
"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.