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:Eric Ethington (Author) | April 3, 2012
Congressmen Rob Bishop (R) and Jason Chaffetz (R) voted this past week to allow employers to require you turn over your Facebook passwords. In a nearly party-line vote, House Republicans voted unanimously to allow your boss to require you give up your private Facebook and Twitter account info. It’s a scary new phenomenon, but many [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 5, 2012
Salt Lake City – In a crazy twist Monday, Republicans in the Utah House of Representatives continued pushing their argument that creating a specialty license plate honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. will lead to abortions. Good luck following this twisting and turning folks. Representative Rebecca Chavez-Houck (D – Salt Lake City) brought forth a reasonable [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 29, 2011
Indiana – The Senate just finished voting this afternoon to create a constitutional amendment which bans not only same sex marriage, but also civil unions and anything else which could possibly be misconstrued as being “similar to marriage.” Vote passed 40-10. After several months of debate, the State Senate has finally sided with bigotry and [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 23, 2011
Denver, Colorado – The full State Senate has just passed a bill legalizing Civil Unions for gay couples. This is one of two votes required by the Senate, and if it passes again will go on to the House before being signed into law. If you live in Colorado, NOW would be the time to [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 14, 2011
Thank you to everyone who voted in this year’s BEST and WORST Utah Senators competition! We had over 4,000 voters between February and the end of the session, with some very close races! Check out the winners below! With 1,389 votes.. the award for BEST Senator goes to Ben McAdams of Senate District 2! Senator McAdams [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 10, 2011
Washington DC – Last night House Republicans, led by Speaker Boehner, voted to hire outside attorneys to defend the so-called Defense Of Marriage Act in court. They don’t have a plan to get jobs back into the country, but they have the time and money to deny citizens of rights? The House Legal Advisory committee, [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 9, 2011
Annapolis, Maryland – The “Civil Marriage Protection Act” has passed the 1st day of debate in the House, and at the same time Democratic Legislators were able to defeat 4 different amendments which would have seriously harmed the bill. According to reports, the 3rd Reading will most likely happen tomorrow morning – possibly followed immediately [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 9, 2011
Ogden, Utah – Last night we reported that although the City Council passed housing and employment Non-Discrimination ordinances, Mayor Matthew Godfrey has pledged to veto them and the council doesn’t have a super majority to override. But the veto has been delayed by a week! Going against the clear will of the citizens of Ogden, [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 8, 2011
Ogden, Utah – Following the debate last night on the proposed city Non-Discrimination ordinances, the Ogden City Council is set to vote tonight both on whether or not to adopt the law, as well as whether to exempt Christians. Get the details below and call/email now! The time is now! Ogden has been debating whether [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 2, 2011
Maryland – The 2nd of the two Democrat holdouts on the gay marriage vote is now back on board according to WBAL, but it may be too late. NOM has used the extra time to launch an all-out mailer blitz statewide and now other Democrats may be backing off from their support. Yesterday morning, 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.