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December 1, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
The nation's highest court has declined to join the debate over whether Jack can marry Dick and Jill can marry Jane. But that is not the end of it. No, gentle readers, Americans are not destined to have domestic tranquility in the matter of civil unions for some time. Or, for that matter, civil tranquility in the matter of domestic unions. All that happened Monday is that the justices of the U.S. Full Story
December 1, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
The nation's highest court has declined to join the debate over whether Jack can marry Dick and Jill can marry Jane. But that is not the end of it.No, gentle readers, Americans are not destined to have domestic tranquility Full Story
December 1, 2004 • Mark Eddington
A real-estate broker and a Utah Valley State College student are not dropping the lawsuit they filed over filmmaker Michael Moore's appearance at UVSC.Even though Moore has come and gone and the Utah Attorney General's Full Story
November 30, 2004 • By Patty Reinert Houston Chronicle
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to Massachusetts' gay marriage law, leaving intact a state court ruling that has led to thousands of weddings for same-sex couples and a national debate on the issue. Without commenting, the justices declined to hear the case filed by the Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based group that opposes gay rights and sought to overturn the 4-3 ruling by Massachusetts' highest court a year ago. Full Story
November 22, 2004 • By Christopher Smith The Salt Lake Tribune
WASHINGTON - Political observers in Utah, where LDS can mean "least Democratic state," appreciate the irony of Nevada Sen. Harry Reid's selection as Senate minority leader last week. Even in the U.S. Senate, it did not go unnoticed that now the most powerful elected Democrat in the country is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "I had a Jewish senator say that to me," said Sen. Full Story
November 22, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
I was flummoxed to see that The Tribune published Jackie Anderson's parochial and silly letter to the editor ("Prick of the ballot," Forum, Nov. 15) addressing Amendment 3. By framing the ban on gay marriage as a Mormon and Utah issue only, Jackie reveals her ignorance of the current events and trends in the United States. She clearly does not know that referendums banning gay marriage and civil unions passed overwhelmingly in 11 states on Nov. Full Story
November 22, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
I was flummoxed to see that The Tribune published Jackie Anderson's parochial and silly letter to the editor ("Prick of the ballot," Forum, Nov. 15) addressing Amendment 3.By framing the ban on gay marriage Full Story
November 22, 2004 • Christopher Smith
WASHINGTON -- Political observers in Utah, where LDS can mean "least Democratic state," appreciate the irony of Nevada Sen. Harry Reid's selection as Senate minority leader last week.Even in the U.S. Senate, Full Story
November 21, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
STORY OF THE WEEK: Mandatory minimum sentencing The U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights says one thing; federal minimum mandatory sentencing laws say another. Last week, U.S. District Judge Paul Cassell reluctantly went with the mandatory minimums and sentenced a drug dealer to spend the next half-century in prison. Full Story
November 21, 2004 • By Shawn Pogatchnik The Associated Press
DUBLIN, Ireland - Ireland should legalize civil partnerships between unmarried couples, including homosexuals, but not pursue full-fledged ''gay marriage,'' Justice Minister Michael McDowell said Saturday in his first major policy speech on the matter. Full Story
November 21, 2004 • Thad Box
Religious conservatives say values like abortion, stem cell research and gay marriage re-elected George W. Bush. And that moral issues determine how people vote on most things. But gay marriage did not cause defeat of Utah's open-space initiative. The non-partisan Pew Research Center found national voters tended to make morals their top choice only if it was one of several presented on a list. Full Story
November 21, 2004 • By Tim Rutten Los Angeles Times
In America's unending argument with itself, the phrase ''moral values'' has become the rhetorical equivalent of the groundhog. Its regular appearances might be an ambiguous harbinger of things to come, but crowds nonetheless gather - some out of simple credulity, some out of cockeyed enthusiasm and some, more cynical or self-interested, to profit from the other two. Full Story
November 21, 2004 • Thad Box
Religious conservatives say values like abortion, stem cell research and gay marriage re-elected George W. Bush. And that moral issues determine how people vote on most things. But gay marriage did not cause defeat of Utah's open-space Full Story
November 21, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
A look aheadMONDAY CITY CREEK CANYON CLOSURE City Creek Canyon will be closed weekdays from Monday to Feb. 28 while workers fill in Pleasant Valley Reservoir and upgrade a water treatment facility. The canyon will be Full Story
November 20, 2004 • By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service
With the results of the election fresh on his mind, Pastor Ken Friendly called a meeting of black and white ministers in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss forming a chapter of the Traditional Values Coalition. The African-American pastor of Lighthouse Christian Fellowship said the group will ensure that his state's legislators and school board members hear the racially diverse voices of religious conservatives. Full Story
November 19, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Religion has always had clout in America's political arena; some feel too much and others too little. Lately, however, it has been difficult to tell the politician from the preacher. They seem to have combined into some new single, invincible entity portraying the characteristics of both in one glorious crusade toward a perfect marriage now consummated with the re-election of President Bush. Full Story
November 19, 2004 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Religion has always had clout in America's political arena; some feel too much and others too little. Lately, however, it has been difficult to tell the politician from the preacher. They seem to have combined into some new single, Full Story
November 16, 2004 • Maureen Dowd THE NEW YORK TIMES
You'd think the one good thing about merging church and state would be that politics would be suffused with glistening Christian sentiments like ''love thy neighbor,'' ''turn the other cheek,'' ''good will toward men,'' ''blessed be the peacemakers'' and ''judge not lest you be judged.'' Yet somehow I'm not getting a peace, charity, tolerance and forgiveness vibe from the conservatives and evangelicals who claim to have put their prodigal son back in office. Full Story
November 14, 2004 • By Steven Thomma Knight Ridder News Service
WASHINGTON - President Bush won re-election, took a majority of the popular vote for the first time in 16 years and added to his party's majority in both houses of Congress for the first time since Franklin Roosevelt did in 1936. What more could he want? A mandate. ''America has spoken,'' Bush said, his eyes on a bold second-term agenda that would overhaul the nation's tax code, partly privatize Social Security, reshape America's courts and assert U.S. Full Story
November 14, 2004 • By Frank Phillips Boston Globe
Newly energized social conservatives, fresh off their success in helping to re-elect President Bush, are viewing Gov. Mitt Romney's prospective White House candidacy in 2008 with deep suspicion because of his perceived support for abortion rights and a proposed gay-marriage ban - but that ban would allow civil unions for gay couples, analysts and activists around the country say. Full Story
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