The Majority Leader of the Utah state House went hot tubbing some years ago in the nude. That is not news in itself. However, the then 30-year-old Kevin Garn’s hot tubbing involved a 15-year-old girl who was also nude.
This happened in 1985. Garn was married at the time and the 15-year-old, Cheryl Maher, was an [...]

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This is a big step for Utah State Senator Chris Buttars.
Buttars initially opposed Salt Lake City’s ordinance protecting gays from housing and job discrimination. In fact, Buttars considered sponsoring state action overriding the Salt Lake City ordinance. Last week the Mormon Church backed the Salt Lake City ordinance and that got Buttars to rethink.
Now, he [...]

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Utah has just created the nation’s toughest anti-texting law. Text and getting into an accident may bring you 15 years in state prison.
“It’s a willful act. If you choose to drink and drive or if you choose to text and drive, you’re assuming the same risk,” said state Senator Lyle Hillyard.
Texting and causing an accident [...]

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Utah Governor Gary Herbert said that gays do not need special protections in Utah with fair housing and employment laws.
“Where do you stop? That’s the problem going down that slippery road. Pretty soon we’re going to have a special law for blue-eyed blondes,” Herbert said.
A group pushing an ordinance guaranteeing gays equal treatment in housing, [...]

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Forget about the housing market crash, growing unemployment or the ill health of the stock market threatening America. For that matter, forget about radical Islamic terrorists too.
Utah state Senator Chris Buttars knows what the greatest threat to America is: Gays.  ”They’re probably the greatest threat to America going down I know of…the radical gay movement.”
This [...]

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Utah’s liquor laws are odd. You can throw in archaic and byzantine, for that matter.
Now some want to make them even odder.
Utah is the only state where customers cannot be served drinks directly over the counter at restaurant bars. That is because children are allowed to sit there. Beer with an alcohol content of greater [...]

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Utah’s polygamous communities have released a voter’s guide ranking candidates against the fundamentalist Mormon perspective. The guide lists 150 candidates and ballot issues from President to sheriff.
The guide asked questions that divided the responses into two areas: campaign ethics and equal civil rights. One of the questions it asked, “Should polygamous people have the same [...]

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Last week, Foolocracy reported that the Utah Democratic delegation was given some of the worst seats at the Democratic National Convention. As Todd Taylor, head of the Democratic delegation put it, “We have our traditional seats with a good view of the butt.” Taylor was referring to the cameramen seated just in front of the [...]

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“We have our traditional seats with a good view of the butt,” said Todd Taylor, head of the Utah Democratic Party.
It seems that Utah always get the worst seats at the Democratic convention. That really should not be a surprise since the Republican Presidential nominee usually receives over 70% of the Utah vote.
When Utah delegates [...]

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Utah State Representative Mark Walker must have figured he was heading to defeat in the Republican Primary for state Treasurer. So what does a candidate who really wants the office to do? Bribe the opponent, of course.
 
Walker is alleged to have bribed state Deputy Treasurer Richard Ellis. It is claimed that Walker offered Ellis a [...]

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