http://oneutah.org The Progressive Voices of Utah Politics Candidates Religion Mormon LDS Firmage Impeachment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:05:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif For a long time now, the ridiculous right has been ginning up pointless controversies over claims that religious people have the right to refuse to do their jobs on the basis of their faith. From Rob Boston, at Talk to Action: Stories abound in the media of "pro-life pharmacists" who refuse to ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/339293946/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/18/religious-rights-and-wrongs/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/339293859/ As I’m about to discuss the world religious, I begin with a confession. I’m the anonymous source of Cliff’s photograph and caption about walking instead of driving to church (“Church Goers Should Walk If They Can”), which prompted one LDS reader to wail, “Try walking half a mile with a ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/338408116/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/17/on-two-year-olds-walking-to-church/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/338408115/ The good news: House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers will convene an impeachment hearing at 10 a.m. on Friday, July 25th. The hearing will address abuses of power by the Bush administration. The bad news: This hearing has been described as "preliminary" and "informational." As Rep. Conyers put it, ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/338309627/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/17/impeachment-hearing-scheduled-for-july-25th/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/338309622/ In our society, almost all minority groups face a complicated choice between being fully integrated and between self-segregation. At one time, women's colleges were the only avenue for women to pursue higher education, same for the historically black colleges. Catholic schools were organized since many public schools openly ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/338211669/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/17/swimming-with-the-gays/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/338211667/ Anybody who is over a hundred years old, and as bewildered as I am about why a cover for "The New Yorker" has caused a controversy among Barack Obama supporters and even evades a decent comment from Obama himself, might get a kick out of this post. This cover, which ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/337937382/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/17/ozzie-and-harriet-take-a-hard-left-towards-the-center/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/337937376/ Yesterday, the Fourth Circuit appellate court, in a 5-4 ruling (PDF), affirmed that the President has the power to arrest U.S. citizens and legal residents inside the U.S., and imprison them indefinitely in a military prison, without charging them with any crime, based solely on his assertion that the imprisoned ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/337346923/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/16/bush-versus-freedom-in-america/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/337315007/ Ed Brayton has a great post The Athiests are Coming, the Atheists are Coming! up at his place. In it, he points out a tendency among at least some conservative Christian writes for: vaguely hysterical writings that get his credulous followers without ever actually identifying what they should feel threatened ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/337346925/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/16/the-enlightenment-changed-everything/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/337315008/ The more than 200 insurgents who made a predawn attack on an outpost near the Pakistan border outnumbered defenders three to one, according to the New York Times. Sunday's assault occurred just three days after 45 US soldiers, likely from the 173rd Airborne Brigade, and 25 Afghan troops established ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/336347326/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/15/attack-on-afghanistan-outpost-breached-perimeter/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/336347324/ As predicted last February, the U.S. government terrorist watch list has passed the one million mark. Barry Steinhardt point out the absurdity on HuffPo: There cannot possibly be one million terrorists poised to attack us. If there were our cities would be ablaze. The president - if not this president, then the ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/336060945/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/15/a-million-terrorists-and-counting/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/336060944/ The Cracker Kerfuffle has drawn some very interesting discussion in the blogosphere. A friend explained to me that many Catholic communities believe that people will steal the consecrated communion wafers to use them in Devil worship. Now, I realize I'm not exactly orthodox in my faith but ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/335477034/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/14/what-we-have-to-learn-from-the-cracker/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/335477031/ Eric Kleefeld on Talking Points Memo reviews the latest polls: It's starting to look like the presidential race is narrowing once more. The latest Rasmussen tracking poll now has a nearly-tied race at Obama 47%, McCain 46%, the latest national poll showing the race to be practically even. Rasmussen also registered a ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/335412066/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/14/why-are-obama-and-mccain-tied-in-the-polls/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/335412061/ The first line of The Nation article linked below reads, "...even the most rabidly right-wing media hosts had to prove their populist cred..." That gave me pause to reflect on Paul Mero's comment this morning, "...and if congressional lefties (and spineless Republicans) would allow the domestic production of oil and gas..." If ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/335285139/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/14/utahn-distinguishes-himself-among-uber-conservatives/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/335285130/ Former Senator Jesse Helms, the notorious author of dozens of measures attacking GLBT and HIV-positive people during his years in the Senate, died on July 4. Unfortunately, the legacy of discrimination against HIV-positive people he helped to create lives on in a law that bars nearly every foreign person with ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/335249835/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/14/the-legacy-of-jesse-helms-is-a-stubborn-stain/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/335249833/ Here's another one of those stories that ought to be big news here in America, but can only be found by going to the foreign press. From the Sunday Times: Nouri al-Maliki ready to oust US from Iraq green zone. Ali Dabbagh, the Green Zone government spokesman, says: “We think that ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/335208803/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/14/bye-bye-green-zone/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/335208802/ AP | BEN FELLER | July 14, 2008 at 10:46 AM WASHINGTON — In another push to deal with soaring gas prices, President Bush on Monday will lift an executive ban on offshore drilling that his stood since his father was president. But the move, by itself, ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/335187140/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/14/bush-to-lift-executive-ban-on-offshore-drilling/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/335187135/ Thanks Scalia. This is what happens when gun nuts are allowed out. The FACT is, this kind of thing happens everyday in America. What does NOT happen everyday is that someone's life is saved as the result of individual hand gun ownership (Alan Korwin thinks it happens ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/334593571/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/13/win-an-ar-15-assault-rifle-for-going-to-church/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/334593570/ Someone sent this to me anonymously with the caption. An LDS ward parking lot near our home that accommodates over 180 cars, not including overflow on the street. The most of the congregation lives within 0.5 mi of the building. If every Mormon in Utah walked rather than drove to church ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/334570881/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/13/church-goers-should-walk-if-they-can/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/334570880/ PZ Myers was righteously and correctly offended at a nonsense nonissue kerfuffle over a student "stealing" and "holding hostage" a communion wafer. The story goes something like this: the student went to Catholic communion service, didn't eat the wafer immediately, was physically assaulted by someone trying to force ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/334276526/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/13/is-christianity-nothing-more-than-a-howling-medievalism/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/334276525/ Cynthia McKinney Wins Green Party Presidential Nomination July 12, 2008 (Thanks to Greens for Greens for this article) Cynthia McKinney won the right to be the Green Party of the United States presidential candidate in 2008 today at the GP-US Convention in Chicago. In an overwhelming vote, McKinney, a former Member of Congress ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/333959268/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/12/cynthia-mckinney-wins-green-party-nomination-for-president/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/333959266/ Mike Huckabee was not my candidate this year. He won’t be my candidate in the future. But his strong electoral performance on a shoestring made him one of the most intriguing candidates of 2008. In some ways he was sounding like a Republican populist, perhaps because he ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/feedburner/TMXH/~3/333924557/ http://oneutah.org/2008/07/12/christian-democrats/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OneUtah/~3/333924556/ http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=OneUtahhttp://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=feedburner/TMXH