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From Equality Utah
In a vote of 41 to 29, with 5 Representatives absent, the House of Representatives voted to accept the Senate’s 4th Substitute of HB 236, Student Clubs Amendments, sponsored by Rep. Tilton and Sen. Buttars. 38 votes were needed for the 4th Substitute to be adopted.
Senator Buttars and Representative Tilton have each expressed opposition to Gay Straight Alliances in public schools. HB 236 does not specifically prohibit GSAs, but ambiguous language about why a school can ban a club may give school administrators the impression that they can ban GSAs.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about guns lately – since there was a shooting and mass murder here in Salt Lake last week. It’s so easy for anyone to get a gun. So I have some thoughts.
1. Gun permits should be treated like a drivers license. Go to school. Take a written, vision and practical test.
2. Gun permits should also be treated like annual car tag renewals. Every year you go through a competency test to make sure you can still can use the gun properly.
3. Gun permits should be obtained in the same way that a person seeking employment with, say, the school system should be. Fingerprints. Background investigation.
Having higher standards and stricter criteria for owning a gun should definitely be put into place. While our legislators are busy arguing over school clubs and women’s rights, people can walk into a gun shop and obtain a gun permit with little effort.
That’s crazy.
Whenever I go camping for a few days or go on vacation, I feel totally out of touch with the real world for a time.
And that’s a good thing.
We all need to be “out of touch” at times to give our brains and bodies a rest and diversion. I’ve posted my
San Rafael Swell Camping photos of last weekend’s trip.
Now, back to reality……
Sometimes it takes a respite from everything for a new perspective and breath of fresh air.
Just returned from a stunning trip to southern Utah’s San Rafael Swell where I hiked a total of 15 miles in three days. I’ll post photos soon.
It was great to get away from “stuff” for a few days.
The Salt Lake Tribune has posted a brief mention of yesterday’s rally that I attended.
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Bad Senators. No bone.
Senate OKs club measure: It would allow schools to ban gay alliances
The Senate has approved the ever-changing student clubs bill — now back to its original form — which would allow school officials to ban clubs that threaten “the physical, emotional … and moral well-being of students.”
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Today a rally was held at the Utah State Capitol by Planned Parenthood and the ACLU to lobby for a “no” vote to H.B. 235, the bill that originally would have banned abortions in Utah, but has now been reverted back to being a “trigger” bill.
The prevailing message was that women must retain the right to do what they want with their own bodies and the way to avoid abortions is by providing sex education (and not just abstinence) as well as legal and safe abortions if needed.
Pom Poms Not Bomb Bombs, Utah’s Radical Cheerleaders, of which I am a member, participated. Here is the appropro cheer we did:
2-4-6-8!
Women’s care is second rate!
That’s not decent in our state!
We want access not debate!
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The U.S. House on Friday will be voting on a “non-binding” resolution opposing the surge of additional troops to Iraq.
Well big whoopin’ deal.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said the Democratic resolution was the first step in a longer campaign to end U.S. participation in the nearly four-year-old conflict.
Skip that “step” already. You don’t need a “non-binding” resolution to take action. Just DO it! Cut off the money. Vote NO to sending more troops. Get Bush and company out of office!
And while our representatives are pussy-footing around the real actions to be taken, the Bushites are beating the war drums to attack Iran through their war talk.
Congress still has no spine. If they are ever to stop the madmen in their tracks, they must stop spending time and taxpayer dollars to develop resolutions that basically mean nada. By the time they get around to doing anything, there will be yet another war involving U.S. troops.
Today is Valentine’s Day.
I join with people all over the world to “make love, stop war”.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 