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A Utah legislator introduced a bill Wednesday that would require all publicly funded programs, laws, and regulations, to ensure they exclude families headed by gay and lesbian couples.
Rep. LaVar Christensen writes in the bill's language that "marriage and family predate all governments and are supported by and consistent with the Laws of Nature and God, the Creator and Supreme Judge of the World, affirmed in the nation’s founding Declaration of Independence." It also says, "families anchored by both a father and a mother, fidelity within marriage, and enduring devotion to the covenants and responsibilities of marriage are the desired norm."
Brandie Balken, executive director of Equality Utah, told the Salt Lake City Tribune that the bill could be used to "create a filter for public agencies and a way to target laws, services and funding that currently help single Utahns or Utanhs with families that differ from Representative Christensen's."
http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/02/02/Utah_Strict_Bill_to_Exclude_Gay_Families/A Utah legislator introduced a bill Wednesday that would require all publicly funded... more
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Utah's ridiculous abstinence only approach to public sex education is once again being challenged in the legislature.
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=9720757Utah's ridiculous abstinence only approach to public sex education is once again... more
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"Last week, Utah--reaffirming its status as reddest state in the nation--took another jab at the vast international community that is trying to halt global warming when its House adopted a resolution that questions climate change, and criticizes federal programs aimed at curbing emissions.
Utah’s legislators originally drafted a resolution to combat the climate change “gravy train” before “climate alarmists....lock billions of human beings into poverty.” But they discarded some of the more incendiary language in the final draft. Still, the resolution seems to be a throwback to the recent golden age of the climate change deniers movement, which has since become relegated to fringe groups (and in an odd turn of events, to last election’s Republican vice presidential candidate)."
Read more: http://www.ypnation.net/utah-lawmakers-what-climate-change"Last week, Utah--reaffirming its status as reddest state in the nation--took... more
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