So much news, so little time
Yay New Orleans Saints in the Super Bowl!
Peyton Manning pulls another hat trick and carries the Colts. I was hoping for a Jets win.
Huuuuuge brickbats to the Supreme Court for putting our legislators up for sale to the highest bidder. As if Congress weren't already "owned," they now have the blessings of the judicial branch.
Mormon
s majorly pissed off about Reed Cowan's film "8: The Mormon Proposition," which is premiering at Sundance. What was that 
about glass houses and stones? How many faithful got sent to Canada and Mexico so they could continue to live "The Principle"? How many church leaders were jailed after 1896 when the Mormons supposedly eschewed "plural marriage" so Utah could become a state? The Mormons wrote the book on bucking the system re: "traditional marriage."
According to this morning's interview on X96, Cowan, a former Mormon and a gay man, started this project when he found out while working as a TV news reporter in Utah that Utah has a disproportionately high number of homeless teens--and that roughly 70-80% of those teens are gay, kicked out by their good Mormon Xtian families. A couple of years and 1500 church documents later, Cowan begins working on a film that exposes the church leaders to be just as vicious and homophobic as the members who kick their own kids to the curb. So the "persecuted" become "persecutors" and cry "persecution" over the backlash.
Read a little about Reed Cowan here.
Peyton Manning pulls another hat trick and carries the Colts. I was hoping for a Jets win.
Huuuuuge brickbats to the Supreme Court for putting our legislators up for sale to the highest bidder. As if Congress weren't already "owned," they now have the blessings of the judicial branch.
Mormon
s majorly pissed off about Reed Cowan's film "8: The Mormon Proposition," which is premiering at Sundance. What was that about glass houses and stones? How many faithful got sent to Canada and Mexico so they could continue to live "The Principle"? How many church leaders were jailed after 1896 when the Mormons supposedly eschewed "plural marriage" so Utah could become a state? The Mormons wrote the book on bucking the system re: "traditional marriage." According to this morning's interview on X96, Cowan, a former Mormon and a gay man, started this project when he found out while working as a TV news reporter in Utah that Utah has a disproportionately high number of homeless teens--and that roughly 70-80% of those teens are gay, kicked out by their good Mormon Xtian families. A couple of years and 1500 church documents later, Cowan begins working on a film that exposes the church leaders to be just as vicious and homophobic as the members who kick their own kids to the curb. So the "persecuted" become "persecutors" and cry "persecution" over the backlash.
Read a little about Reed Cowan here.