Posted on 15 June 2009
The last time that Mormons were kicked out of the country for community organizing was back in the 1840s. While historians can probably identify many causes for which Mormons were forced to leave the country, perhaps one of the most notable reasons was because their settlement, Nauvoo, on the Illinois bank of the Mississippi river [...]
Posted on 03 December 2008
Joe Vogel wrote a recent article in The Huffington Post entitled “A Mormon’s Lament: Church Is On the Wrong Side of History Again With Proposition 8.” Where Vogel raises several controversial points and forces Mormons to ask some hard questions of themselves, Vogel doesn’t show any evidence of an ability to challenge his own assumptions. [...]
Posted on 25 November 2008
Before the stock market developed a severe case of Baracktile Dysfunction, I was starting to invest in a company called Illumina. Even though the stock for this company has crashed pretty hard, I still believe that the long term potential for this company is pretty good. Their mission is to revolutionize the healthcare industry by [...]
Posted on 20 November 2008
We will outlive and outsmart the bigots -Dan Savage From my previous post, Wrong Side of History part 3, I mentioned Dan Savage’s appearance on the Colbert Report. Dan Savage said that homosexuals are going to outlive the bigots. I would love to see the demographic research from which this claim is based. I did [...]
Posted on 17 November 2008
On Tuesday November 11 Dan Savage was on the Colbert Report to defend the gay rights movement‘s protests of Proposition 8. I don’t think this interview was great PR for the gay rights movement. I was surprised that Dan Savage made so many references to his desire to perform sexually perverted acts on boys and young [...]
Posted on 11 November 2008
While theological modification may be acceptable in itself, it would seem that at some point any critical social movement loses its raison d’être when it has either been totally assimilated within the society with which it was originally at odds or it has been removed from that society, either through destruction, or voluntary or forced [...]