What with the Mormon Church, prompting the Utah State Legislature, to pass laws “protecting religion” – in the wake of their proposed endorsement of laws protecting the LGBT community against discrimination. And news of other states trying to prevent the teaching of in-depth facts, concerning those more unsavory bits of US History – that mainly…
The world is again witness to a horrifically barbaric execution. 26-year-old Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh, doused in flammable liquid, awaits execution. The idolatrous transformation – of the relative into the absolute, and the all-too-human into the divine – makes it possible for man to indulge his ugliest passion, in the firm belief that he is…
I generally spend a good deal of time and effort suggesting folks would do well to retire many of their absolutist and fundamentalist religious views, for those more psychologically healthy views of human spirituality, and morality. Based on those innate human values we share with virtually all other human beings on the planet. I…
Where is the outrage? By “John St John” Nelson Sept 6, 2013 President Obama, members of the U.S. House and Senate and the Citizenry of these United States at large. Where is your moral outrage? . Since December 14th, 2012, over seven thousand citizens and visitors to this nation, have died due to induced lead…
The Salt Lake Daily Issue 