A whole new level of shady..

The whole Prop 8, hate the Mormons, blame a group that has been hated on just like if not MORE than gay people, has been astounding to me. As I believe is abundently clear I am Mormon and I am liberal. The Prop 8 thing has been a hard thing to work out in my heart and mind because I have troubles condemning or judging anything. Especially love. I do, however, choose to follow my faith when I am torn on a choice and in this case, as cowardly as this is, I am relieved to not have to had to make the vote. One thing I have kept silent on is Perez Hilton and his histrionics in calling out the gay community to be as stupid and hate filled as he is accusing the all powerful Mormon church to be. He even encouraged his readers to boycott Sundance....

Okay, Utahns for the most part hate Sundance. Park City hates Utah. The state is a majority of conservative people. Many Utahns hate the fact that Californians tired of the big city and unruly teens think they can move in and we will magically rehabilitate these kids who have been indulged and allowed to disrespect everyone but themselves. Gang related crime is growing like crazy and we simple haven't had to deal with at all in the past. They soon learn that they hate the grandfather law, the smell of a cattle ranch, and being woken at sunrise by their neighbor's rooster. So they go about trying to change the laws to make us more like..... California. They have succeeded in Park City and with the Sundance Film Festival. They've wondered if the can annex this little beautiful area in Utah and make it as twisted as Hollywood with all the drugs and dysfunction. The pilgramage of Hollywood's depraved is something we endure yearly. Breaking news: we dislike you (for the most part) and realize that all people from California are not in this catagory and amazing people (how lame would you be to judge an entire group of people, by some total losers??), but there are a lot of them. We call you Prune Pickers. Don't hurt your heads, we know prunes are dried plums, it's just that you are so annoying. King of the Prunies is Robert Redford. He has taken one of the most beautiful areas in Utah and turned it into his little evironmental experiment, but the above mentioned pilgramage, is anything BUT green. Like most people who profess to be environmentalist prefer to pay lipservice but don't really practice what they preach. Like the car makers and their separate private jets. Ummm ... DUH!
Mr. Redford HAS impressed and frightened me. I hope in this case he has some serious sway because this is frightening. Utah is beautiful and exists on our National Parks. Utah is breathtaking and diverse. It's like Bush realizes that he has the keys to the car for a short time so he's going to trash it before handing it over. So for once I pray Robert Redford can help us out. Here is his article from Huffington Post:
Robert Redford
Posted November 17, 2008 09:20 PM (EST)

Part of the change Americans just voted for in overwhelming numbers was to move away from the failed energy philosophy of "drill, baby, drill" to a more farsighted strategy, emphasized by Barack Obama, based on clean, renewable energy and efficiency. Yet on the very day that we raised our voices for change, the Bush administration dragged us in the opposite direction.
The Bureau of Land Management cynically chose November 4 to announce a last-minute plan to lease huge swaths of majestic wilderness in eastern Utah for oil and gas extraction one month before President-elect Obama takes office.
As its clock runs out, the Bush administration also is trying to open-up drilling all over the Rockies and Alaska, to green-light oil shale leasing, and to weaken the Endangered Species Act. Though sad, it's no surprise, coming as it does from the same crowd that designed a misguided national energy policy in secret meetings with the oil, gas and coal industries.
The BLM didn't just try to slip the audacious Utah lease maneuver past the American people on an historic election day, it actually hid the ball from its sister agency, the National Park Service, and then rejected the Service's request for more time to review the scheme.
Among the 360,000 acres to be auctioned for industrial development is pristine land near Canyonlands National Park, adjacent to Arches National Park and Dinosaur National Monument. This Christmas gift to the dirty fuel industry includes parts of Desolation Canyon, named in 1869 by the explorer John Wesley Powell, which has been proposed for national park status. In fact, the BLM itself described Desolation Canyon nine years ago as "a place where a visitor can experience true solitude -- where the forces of nature continue to shape the colorful, rugged landscape."
Words alone cannot do justice to the beauty of these places, but they do capture the absurdity of the Bush plan. Oil and gas drilling in Desolation Canyon? Industrial development along the meandering Green River? The thought makes one wince.
The Obama transition team already has signaled its opposition to the leases, and said that once in office the Obama administration will try to reverse them. Let's hope that's possible. Utah's eastern expanse is one of America's few remaining wilderness treasures. It's our land, it's our legacy, but will it still be here for our children and grandchildren? We made our wishes about that known loudly and clearly on election day.
We voted to take control of our own destiny by breaking our addiction to dirty fuels. We voted to re-power America with clean energy from wind, solar and geothermal power. We voted to use of our greatest resource, American ingenuity, to build economic, energy and climate security, and to preserve our natural heritage. Yes we did. And yes we can.
Robert Redford, an actor, director and environmental activist, is a Trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council and is the founder of Sundance, in Utah.

Link to the article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-redford/americans-rejected-drill_b_144499.html
Link to the breathtaking beauty that will be raped:
Arches- http://www.utahoutventures.com/pictures/arches-national-park.htm
Canyonlands- http://www.utahoutventures.com/pictures/canyonlands-national-park.htm
Green River-http://www.go-utah.com/activityLink.cfm?activity_id=453063988

Also there is coal under Bryce Canyon that would have to be strip mined. We've fought this one for years.
Bryce Canyon- http://www.go-utah.com/Bryce-Canyon-National-Park/