Tag Archives: Utah

The whackjobs of America Forever took out full page ads in Salt Lake City’s newspapers yesterday denouncing the LGBT rights and marriage equality movements as cover to “validate homosexuality to the children.” They take particular aim at Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (a Mormon) who last week expressed support for civil unions in Utah. Note their use of an interracial gay …

On Wednesday, Californians Against Hate launched a boycott against the Utah-based Ken Garff Automotive, which has 53 dealerships in six states, due to the $100K donation to Prop 8 by the head of the family that founded the company. That same day, CAH’s Fred Karger met with executives at the dealership chain and may be about to announce an amicable …

Wayne Besen’s Truth Wins Out has taken out a full-page ad to appear in tomorrow’s Salt Lake City Tribune to counter the anti-gay Beckett Fund ad that appeared in the NY Times last Friday. The ad uses direct quotes from the Beckett Fund ad’s cosigners in which they condemn the Mormon Church as un-Christian. Truth Wins Out (TWO) unveiled a …

GLAAD will again sponsor the Queer Lounge at next month’s Sundance Film Festival. Despite calls for a Utah boycott, the Queer Lounge will return to Park City in January for the Sundance Film Festival. Noting their displeasure with the LDS Church for its efforts to ban same-sex marriage, leaders with lounge sponsor Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation say the …

The Salt Lake City Tribune notes the backlash against the LDS: Although they live a continent away from California, LDS Church members Gregory and JaLynn Prince, of Washington, D.C., still have felt the backlash from their church’s involvement in the traditional marriage initiative known as Proposition 8. Their daughter, Lauren, a Boston University student, has lost friends over the issue, …

There’s a growing call to boycott Utah in the wake of Proposition 8 and the referendum’s massive support by the Utah-based Mormon Church. Utah’s growing tourism industry and the star-studded Sundance Film Festival are being targeted for a boycott by bloggers, gay rights activists and others seeking to punish the Mormon church for its aggressive promotion of California’s ban on …

LGBT activists in California are collecting petition signatures asking the Mormon Church to stop meddling in the gay marriage issue. The Courage Campaign contends church leaders have “intimidated” members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints into giving millions of dollars to the Yes on 8 campaign. On Nov. 4, California voters will decide whether to approve Proposition …

The Mormon Church is asking its youngest members to use all the digital technology at their disposal to spread the church’s hate. Young Mormons in California and Californian Mormons studying on Brigham Young University campuses should use texting, blogging, videos, podcasts, Twitter and Facebook to “go viral” in support of a California ballot initiative that would ban gay marriage, said …

Utah resident and WordPerfect cofounder Bruce Bastian has pledged $1M to fight California’s Proposition 8 as out-of-state money continues to roll in on both sides of the issue. When Bruce Bastian of Utah stood up Saturday night at a San Francisco dinner and wrote a $1 million check for the campaign against Proposition 8, he made it clearer than ever …

Salt Lake City’s new mayor’s first action is to enact a domestic partners registry. Salt Lake Mayor Ralph Becker is wasting no time making good on a campaign promise. In his first official action as mayor he has proposed a domestic partner registry for same-sex couples and for opposite-sex couples who cannot or chose not to marry. The measure will …

A Utah single mother, overwhelmed by her drug problems, asked her uncle to take temporary custody of her four children while she gets her act together. Even though her uncle was already raising two kids with his male partner, he agreed to take in the kids, ages 10 months to 11 years. Enter the state of Utah, which does not …