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| Tenax | Update: SLC and Ogden Service Weekend Event | 1 | Apr 2 2009, 11:24 PM EDT by Tenax | ||||
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Please note that the Service Weekend Event in Ogden and Salt Lake City has been delayed due to bad weather. Please check the <a href="http://jointheimpact.wetpaint.com/page/Salt+Lake+City">Salt Lake City</a> page on this website to see the new event schedule.
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| Tenax | New SLC and Ogden event | 0 | Mar 27 2009, 7:12 PM EDT by Tenax | ||||
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See the Salt Lake City page for more information about the "General Service" weekend event.
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| utah2bearsplaying | Chrissi Buttars Drag Queen Speaks Out Buttars-Palooza event Salt Lake | 0 | Feb 26 2009, 3:04 AM EST by utah2bearsplaying | ||||
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| utah2bearsplaying | Please see the blog link for | 0 | Jan 22 2009, 9:52 PM EST by utah2bearsplaying | ||||
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| Anonymous | Choose children (page: 1 2 3 4 5) | 96 | Dec 17 2008, 5:56 PM EST by ld1266 | ||||
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Thread started: Nov 12 2008, 11:34 PM EST
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Children are a necessity for the preservation of any society. Society created marriage contracts and gave benefits to a man and woman because they had the _assumed potential_ to bear children who will preserve society. Marriage would ideally created a safe, loving environment in which children could be born. Of course there will be infertility, etc. that may prevent child-bearing, but those are unhappy exceptions and do not lessen marriage's definition. The assumed potential was still valid, just not realized.
The current gay-marriage movement seeks to redefine marriage by eliminating the idea of children as an inherent part of the social contract. Since society cannot assume a gay couple will bear children, the "marriage" contract _only_ becomes a social recognition of two people’s love, but no children can be assumed of any couple if we are to be “equal.” The more our society diminishes the importance of having children (whether by excluding the assumption of childbearing from the definition of marriage, promoting "married" lifestyles without children, aborting them for mere convenience, etc.), then more and more people will choose not to have children as the world is already doing. This in turn will wreak havoc on societies, for shrinking populations cannot sustain economies, defend liberties, take care of the elderly, etc. I do not choose to "hate" or to exclude any one, but I must oppose the gay-marriage movement which, by definition, eliminates the assumption of children in a marriage contract. I choose children.
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| bearsplaying@yahoo. | INVEST IN LOVE NOT HATE! | 0 | Dec 14 2008, 3:35 AM EST by bearsplaying@yahoo. | ||||
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Ever since Prop 8 passed, tensions have been high between the GLBT community here in Utah & the LDS church. A friend of mine () has made a suggestion, that may turn this atmosphere to a positive outcome. In protest against the churches stance on proposition 8, rather than resorting to violence or negative actions, put this energy into feeding the hungry.The LDS church is known for donating food to the hungry, rather putting our time and money into dividing the country, the GLBT community will be putting it where the church should have in the first place; into helping our fellow man.This is starting at a local bar named Try-Angles 240 West 900 South in Salt Lake City, which will be filling their entire patio with food. A local magazine named Q Salt Lake is helping by advertising to getting folks behind it. We are hoping that with the right publicity this won’t stop with one well meaning bar but hopefully spread nation wide. Proving not only that we have a large, strong, unified community, but a compassionate, giving one as well. Concerned more with using our time and money for the love of our fellow man, than spreading more hate.We know that this matter involves two things you care deeply about, and if you can help spread the word, we would be deeply thankful.
Just as a side note, I am LDS, and Straight, and have been torn between my deep belief that love is NEVER wrong no matter who it is with, and my churches stance on this matter. This is a way I can positively protest. Please let it be known, there is a large group of “Mormons” out here, that are against prop 8 any other legislation like it.
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| bearsplaying@yahoo. | $22 Million spent on HATE by Church FOOD DRIVE PEACEFUL PROTEST | 0 | Dec 14 2008, 3:23 AM EST by bearsplaying@yahoo. | ||||
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UTAH PROPOSITION 8 Food Drive -The Church Spent $22 million on Hate,,,,Let us use our resources to promote Love.
bearsplaying@yahoo. Let us all nationwide show the LOVE of the GLBT Community in a silent protest. A positive way to help needy families, record homeless families, and the poor in our great country. The L.D.S. Church is famous for charity giving and social programs. This is the biggest waste of $22 million dollars, many needy families could be fed this year for that amount. I support any positive giving to charities in your own community. Toys for Tots, Big Brothers Sisters, Food Pantry, Salvation Army, and many more. I am one person but with others in the GLBT Community, we can make a difference. With my working poor domestic partner this year we were already able to donate $1300 to charities thru eBay giving works . I am the originator of the food drive in opposition to hate in Utah. QSALT LAKE MAGAZINE CLUB TRY-ANGLES FILL THE PANTRY FOOD DRIVE December 20th 2008 Salt Lake City, Utah Sirus Radio Club Try-Angles ,240 West 900 South, Salt Lake City, Utah Tom and Darin
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| Xainee | Ogden Area | 0 | Dec 4 2008, 3:29 AM EST by Xainee | ||||
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Thread started: Dec 4 2008, 3:29 AM EST
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Is there anything going on in Ogden, I know it isn't that small, maybe I could help out or something.
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| Hstuerke | Anyone in Ogden, UTAH area??? | 2 | Nov 28 2008, 11:51 PM EST by mworthen | ||||
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Thread started: Nov 22 2008, 6:37 PM EST
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Anyone up for this around me? Let me know. Hncase2u@aol.com ~ Heather...'My brother is a 2nd class citizen!'
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| Lazuli | Choices | 0 | Nov 15 2008, 10:51 PM EST by Lazuli | ||||
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I fail to see what makes people so angry about a lifestyle that they do not need to worry about. It is not as if the lifestyle is forced upon them. It should be a private matter, something loving between two consenting adults. If anything, the 'straight' lifestyle is what is being forced on those that have another way of loving. No one should force anything on anyone else. No one is forcing you to the gay-lesbian lifestyle. No one is saying 'you must do this or else'. It is their choice, not yours.
We should have equality. It is something I've wished for long time and cannot wrap my brain around why people cannot accept it. I understand that others think this is morally wrong, but what right do they have to push their morals onto someone else? They are adults, they can make their own choics and as long as they do not force you, then they should be left alone. |
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| zdenik | Choose children, not illogical rational to support bigotry and hatred | 1 | Nov 14 2008, 7:14 PM EST by kissagrl21 | ||||
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Thread started: Nov 14 2008, 7:02 PM EST
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Partners, gay or straight, that do not have the ability to make children by traditional means are not inherently against having children, nor are they inherently against the idea of family. And they most certainly do not force the marriage of others to be about any particular ideals. In fact, the marriage of one couple has no bearing on the reasons for any other couple to marry. People get married for their own reasons, regardless of what the law defines marriage as.
When people start groping for rationals to support amending our constitution to contain wording that is discriminatory, that goes against everything America stands for: Liberty and justice for all. Where in the phrase "Liberty and justice for all" does it say, except gays? Shawn Chidester
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| Anonymous | Who DID That!? | 1 | Nov 14 2008, 6:29 PM EST by Eball6 | ||||
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Thread started: Nov 14 2008, 6:28 PM EST
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This page looks AMAZING! I just wanted to say THANK YOU, SO much, whoever updated it! I wouldn't have had any idea how to do so. GREAT work!
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| queerxdemon | Logan Still on? | 2 | Nov 14 2008, 2:04 PM EST by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Nov 13 2008, 1:02 PM EST
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Should the Logan group just go to SLC? Or are we still on for Logan City Hall? I don't know anything about it here...
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| Eball6 | Event Information and Links | 2 | Nov 14 2008, 11:02 AM EST by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Nov 13 2008, 6:45 PM EST
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Please go to theotherweblog.blogspot.com for the most up-to-date information about the Events in Salt Lake City for Join the Impact! The Facebook Event pages you can search for are called Join the Impact Salt Lake - Equality March, and Join the Impact Salt Lake - Equality Vigil. Also go to utahpridecenter.org for a brief rundown of when and where things are happening, and if you'd like you can go to qsaltlake.com where they wrote an article about this event taking place in SLC, and also have a statement posted from the Human Rights Campaign urging these Join The Impact events everywhere to show INCLUSIVENESS, PEACE, and openings of dialogues and respect throughout communities! These are NOT Hate Protests. We are NOT protesting religious organizations or anyone else. We are Promoting Peace and Encouraging Love!
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| RhoadesP | Connect the State | 1 | Nov 13 2008, 5:14 PM EST by Eball6 | ||||
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Thread started: Nov 13 2008, 12:54 PM EST
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There are those of us in southern Utah-heterosexual and homosexual alike-who will do our best to join the efforts in SLC. We ask you to join our efforts down here as well. Please check out the media list for Utah and contribute thoughtful and constructive comments to the growing dialog on one Utah's public campuses. With enough solidarity and outside pressure we may be able to make a difference here.
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| Eball6 | Basic Info | 4 | Nov 13 2008, 3:52 PM EST by Eball6 | ||||
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Thread started: Nov 10 2008, 9:12 PM EST
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Hello all interested parties in Utah! This is such a last-minute, grassroots effort that I believe we will only be able to organize one main protest, in Salt Lake City, Utah. There has already been some interest expressed from friends in Utah County and even St. George, but I think I would ask all who can, to come up to Salt Lake on Saturday morning if at all possible, or help out by spreading the word to all friends who may be able to do so!
As an update, I met with two other wonderfully helpful volunteers this evening at Cafe D'Bolla in Salt Lake City, who were kind enough to let us three sit with our purchases and chat for an hour - if we are able to do this, at that location or others, each night this week, I think it would be a wonderful way to patronize our local businesses, as well as to spread the word that this March for Equality will be happening this weekend! I will have more information by tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon/evening, so stay in touch with me - I will try to respond personally to all emails sent by interested volunteers! What we are currently working on is: 1. Securing a permit to hold the rally at City Hall this Saturday, November 15th from 11:30am - 2:30pm 2. Arranging for police escorts/road closures/permission to march around the two-block perimeter east of City Hall, around Library Square 3. Arranging for Sound Systems to be set up and people to sing/bands to play 4. Arranging for speakers As soon as these things are taken care of tomorrow, let the advertising and grassroots spreading-of-the-word begin! We have a volunteer able to design and provide flyers both to post in local businesses and to distribute around the University of Utah Campus. Perhaps Salt Lake Community College as well! Again, keep the emails coming, to which I'll try to respond - and keep watching here for updates! Or, on my blog at theotherweblog.blogspot.com
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| Eball6 | Permit Secured! | 0 | Nov 12 2008, 4:41 PM EST by Eball6 | ||||
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Okay I just wanted to let everyone who comes to this site know, that this Event is set and scheduled! A myriad of thanks to Travis and Martha for securing that at 8:00 this morning, and to Patrick and Michael and Travis who were amazing today at creating the Facebook Event pages! Also many thanks to all the people who have contacted local religious leaders and organizations and sending me their information and getting out fliers to their congregations. And many thanks to all the people who have contacted me via email and phone for more information to send out to all their contacts and friends and families! We are thrilled to have a Key Note Speaker, Jeff Key, a former member of the United States Marines and Iraq-War veteran who was the subject of a Showtime documentary after being discharged from the United States Marine Corp after coming out of the closet to 5 million people on CNN. We are also extremely grateful to all our other speakers for so graciously agreeing to speak on such late notice, and to the musicians who have also so kindly volunteered to come and share with our community their talent and excitement for this cause!
Updates on Meetings open to anyone who wants more information, or to be more involved leading up to the big day: Tonight, Wednesday, November 12, 8:00pm - Nobrow Coffee & Tea Company - 315 E. 300 S. Salt Lake City, UT - Organizers and Volunteers open discussion, open to suggestions and donations (for tea candles & dixie cups) and anyone who wants to come help/listen in! Friday, November 14, 6:00pm - Cafe Marmalade (The Utah Pride Center) - 361 N. 300 W. Salt Lake City, UT - Sign-making Party! Bring supplies of your own, or come use what's there! Feel free to come after 6, we'll probably all be there for a while. |
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| Eball6 | Update Tuesday Evening, November 11, 2008 | 1 | Nov 11 2008, 8:56 PM EST by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Nov 11 2008, 8:22 PM EST
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I just wanted to let everyone know where we stand after a busy, busy day! I have had the most inspiring number of people here in Utah contacting me using the information I posted here, whether by phone or email - I should start taking count! It's been great. Today, being Veteran's day, we were not able to secure the Events Permit. However, a wonderful activist by the name of Patrick connected with me today and helped me print off the proper form, which I have filled out, and I will be hand-delivering it and retrieving all further information about the Event's Location Details first thing tomorrow morning!
I also wanted to tell everyone, that Patrick has ALREADY secured an Event Permit for The State Capitol for Saturday evening, starting at 6:00pm, and we are coordinating efforts to combine these Events! Saturday evening at the State Capitol, as we are currently aware, we will be holding a candlelight vigil (please contact me if you can donate tea candles or dixie cups and I will put you in contact with Patrick!) where there will be soothing music played on the steps while we walk and then lie down our candles on the lawn of the State Capitol spelling out the word "EQUALITY." As for the most current update about the March/Demonstration/Rally for Equality from 11:30am - 2:30pm, a group of grassroots volunteers are gathering this evening at the Salt Lake Roasting Co. (320 E. 400 S.) to discuss the most up-to-date rallying together we are accomplishing as the hours tick by! THANK YOU, each of you, for checking up on this website, and please feel free to post comments, or email me any comments, and they will all be considered and greatly appreciated! Last Friday Salt Lake City saw an incredible turnout to an event most people found out about THE DAY OF. Saturday is going to more than make the news. It's going to make a difference. Utah is ready for THIS change!
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