I want to say that I think Governer Huntsman is more level headed than I've previously given him credit for. I read about the bills he was vetoing and it was an encouraging sign that even a Republican can see through the prejudice involved with some of these bills.
Read about them here.
It's an interesting read. It makes you wonder what the sponsors of the bills were thinking. Like HB148. It's sponsor, LaVar Christensen, R-Draper, designed this legislation to specifically damage custody battles in the case of homo-sexual parents. Who does he think he is, trying to legislate this religious bombast? If lesbians want to raise kids, they ought to have the same legal recourses as any straight couple.
We need to keep personal religious beliefs out of the legislature.
And out of the federal government, too...
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5 comments:
"Religious bombast?" Psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and academians would all disagree with you, buttface.
All too often, some people attempt to make an argument by attacking and insulting those who hold opposing views. Gov. John Huntsman, Jr.'s activities are a perfect example. I begin with critical semantic clarifications. First, John's primary viewpoint, that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the mingy smut peddlers in his lynch mob, is directly related to the attitudes in our society that delegitimize our belief systems and replace them with a counter-hegemony that seeks to squeeze every last drop of blood from our overworked, overtaxed bodies. To top that off, his secret passion is to trick us into trading freedom for serfdom. For shame! I have no problem with the manifestly obvious statement that even John's least ornery cohorts supplement their already-generous incomes by selling contraband on the black market. I have no problem with the idea that John backstabs his peons. And I have no problem with the special privileges occasionally granted to immature, insidious blood-stained criminals. What I do have a problem with are John's venal communications.
John has remarked that he has the mandate of Heaven to push our efforts two steps backward. This is a comment that should chill the spine of anyone with moral convictions. To make sure you understand, I'll spell it out for you. For starters, John extricates himself from difficulty by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. I, not being one of the many hypersensitive, footling moral weaklings of this world, don't care what others say about him. John's still unruly, haughty, and he intends to show us a gross miscarriage of common judgment. If my own experience has taught me anything, it's that John believes that governments should have the right to lie to their own subjects or to other governments. Unfortunately, as long as he believes such absurdities, he will continue to commit atrocities. In point of fact, he might promote the total destruction of individuality in favor of an all-powerful group by next weekend. What are we to do then? Place blinders over our eyes and hope we don't see the horrible outcome?
Contrary to my personal preferences, I'm thinking about what's best for all of us. My conclusion is that what's best for all of us is for me to convince the worst sorts of intransigent vigilantes there are to stop supporting John and tolerating his put-downs. He occasionally writes letters accusing me and my friends of being apolaustic pests. These letters are typically couched in gutter language (which is doubtless the language in which he habitually thinks) and serve no purpose other than to convince me that if he gets his way, none of us will be able to enable patriots to use their freedoms to save their freedoms. Therefore, we must not let him impose a narrow theological agenda on secular society. If John wants to be taken seriously, he should counter the arguments in this letter with facts, not illogical panaceas, personal anecdotes, or insults. Finally, any one of the points I made in this letter could be turned into a complete research paper, but the conclusion of each would be the same: Gov. John Huntsman, Jr.'s insults represent explicitly his overly accepting attitude towards the most obstreperous paper-pushers I've ever seen.
ummm... It is "religious bombast" in my opinion.
Why did you have to go and call me butt-face? I know I'm no looker, but butt-face?
That's just mean
Let's get back to the issue at hand though. Why did I get called butt-face? I mean. I'm a nice guy. I listen to what people have to say politely.
No offense Steve, but they get your goat all the time. I expect them to call you butt-face. But me?
God, it seems so unfair.
Ok, I deleted most of the juicy diatribes between some you pathetic nobodies (Dawn this means you) and myself and Bryan.
If you fuck heads want to start up your own blog where you obsess and scheme over how tall I am or what color shirt I'm wearing, then please do so.
But over here in the real world, I don't give a shit what you have to say. In fact, I get off on it.
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