The AP article below appeared in today’s Provo Daily Herald. The southern Utah town of Kanab has a city council that passed a resolution to unanimously passed a resolution in favor of the “natural family” consisting of a working husband, a stay-at-home wife and a “full quiver of children.”
What the heck is a QUIVER?
(I’m told that in the archery world it’s where you keep your arrows…..)
Pathetic. Tom and I have decided to purposely not travel through Kanab on our way to the Green Party National Convention in Arizona in July.
Here’s the article:
Kanab threatened with tourist boycott
JENNIFER DOBNER – The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — The little Utah tourist town of Kanab is a gateway to some of the biggest views in Red Rock country. Nearby are Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks as well as other stunning landscapes that formed the backdrop for TV’s “Gunsmoke” and “The Lone Ranger.”
“Our slogan has been ‘Come and play in our backyard,’ ” Kane County’s tourism director Ted Hallisey says.
But some tourists may be passing up Kanab this year.
In January, the City Council in the overwhelmingly Latter-day Saint community of 3,600 unanimously passed a resolution in favor of the “natural family” consisting of a working husband, a stay-at-home wife and a “full quiver of children.”
The resolution struck some as homophobic and sexist, and stirred talk of a Kanab tourism boycott, which won the endorsement of syndicated travel columnist Arthur Frommer.
“I think they know perfectly well this is a smokescreen for discriminating against gays,” the New York City travel guru and guidebook author said Wednesday in a telephone interview.
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