As human beings, we are rather wondrous creatures – made ridiculously contemptible by an overarching and collective need to play on, control, manipulate, and regulate, the private lives and social spheres of influence, of those around us. This collective defect in character is nowhere more pronounced, and used to gaining sway, than in those…
In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go – and gets up and goes. – John Erskine
Though this bit of prose reads more like poetry, those who can recognize and internalize its message, will have gained a surprisingly concise tool. One that speaks to and answers any number of religious, and religious/political, conflations – in understanding their overweening need to be right.
Now that Kate Kelly and the Ordain Women’s movement have, for the most part, concluded their high-profile run at the LDS religious oligarchy – having managed to momentarily make direct and predictably mortal contact with the corporation’s particularly low-hanging, power-ceiling fan – we’ve all had a chance to reflect on what any of it…
Plaintiffs, and attorneys from both sides of the issue, are preparing to face off – once again – over the legality of same-sex marriage. This time before a three-judge panel, at the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, Thursday, April 10, 2014. But having witnessed this battle finally go to the mat, as…
The Salt Lake Tribune, MSNBC, JournalTimes, Deseret News … THE HEADLINES ALL READ: Hawaii positioned to pass same-sex civil unions . Alright! Here it comes. Hawaii – poised to pass same sex civil union legislation, following the mid term elections. For the LDS faithful in both Utah and Hawaii, I would only counsel you not to look upon it…
As the elections approach, let us carefully consider. ( First published in 2 Bites of the Apple, 2009 ) Ode to Sarah Palin Man once believed that the earth was quite flat And it didn’t take god or the angels to know that And that man, a creature of dust, never even existed ’til by god’s own…
(from Oct 12, 2010) . It sounds like the State of Utah has decided that if you can’t beat ’em, you might as well at least join ’em in making a sizable chunk of money off of adult oriented business enterprises. . In any event, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), won’t be stopping…
(from Oct 7, 2010) It seems whenever we have the specter of Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church, picketing a military funeral, or Boyd K. Packer, president of the LDS church’s Quorum of Twelve Apostles’, tumultuous headlines in the news, someone invariably points to the track record of cruel injustices historically perpetrated by various sects of the…
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