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Demos find LDS silent on issues

Since there is typically only a limited amount of insurance when a person is killed in an accident, McCoy's bill would reduce the amount of funds the other heirs (parents, children) would be entitled to collect by adding another person.

This could cause major legal battles challenging such a law as unconstitutional, delaying recovery for the departed's family.

Are these people idiots? We need a special law so that a gay person can inherit property? And all this time I thought you could leave whatever you wanted to whomever you wanted in your will or trust. I didn't know bequests to gay people were invalid. That's a shocker to me. And while they are at it, make sure that I, my family and all my friends can be added to Seeling's insurance policy also since we all want insurance too. Heck, why stop there, just include the entire State of Utah onto Seelig's policy. But I guess that would be the same thing as a single payer system which we all know would be the end of civilization as we know it because the insurance companies have told us so.

I have posted on this article 4 times and nothing showes up..maybe I am banned from giving an honest opinion...

I would like to know what specifically was discussed about immigration, considering the church typically uses its influence to derail any bills which would crack down on illegal aliens.

You can make many laws but you can't change their attitude. It'll take an entire generation to change, just like racism issues.

The Church should stay silent on issues.

Listen to the Gov or stay in the stone ages and wonder why outsiders won't vote for Mormons!

Why is our Legislature 80 percent LDS, when actual members (active or in name only) make up barely 60 percent?

they aren't watched by lds leaders, they are monitored by lds leaders who tell their brethern how to vote...lets face it. the church runs the state..you can't fool me...

If you don't like it, just move to Calibfornia.

Anything goes there and the taxes to pay for that liberal mess show it.

can you hear my tiny violin playing for you! Whine, Whine, Whine!!!!

just wondering whatever happened to seperation of church and state. I know it is a strange concept around here but it sure would be nice to see it happen. I don't want or need anyone's church telling me what I can and cannot do, if I did I would go to church for myself

The Church should not stay silent on issues, but government leaders and representatives should remember it wasn't the Church that voted them in.

Why are homosexuals trying to get the LDS church to make a statement of support of their legislation? We should want to them, as an organization, to neither support nor oppose. Church organizations don't pay taxes, and should stay out of politics until they do. They are not prohibited by law from doing so, but they should be prohibited unless they pay the user fee we all pay.

The church does not run the state. People simply vote their conscience. Normally your upbringing and personal convictions dictate how you are going to react to any given issue or situation. My concern is... many of the people who moved to Utah for the "Quality of Life" arrive, then want to change our laws to match the ones they had where they are from... "Think McFly!" if we do that then we are going to be in the same boat their former places of residence are in, with higher crime, etc.

I don't understand how the state can tell us to whom we must rent our OWN PROPERTY! If I prefer not to rent my property to gays, blacks, latinos, college students, the elderly, families with young children, Mormons, or any other group it's MY business. We don't need government forcing us to rent to certain groups. That goes for my who I hire as well.

Dear joe shmo,

Why do you chose to live here?
Why do you chose to read this paper?

What do you have to base your comment on? "The Church should stay silent on issues."

Certainly it can't be the First Amendment?

It IS Freedom OF Religion. NOT Freedom FROM Relegion.

"The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that expressly prohibits the United States Congress from making laws "respecting an establishment of religion" or that prohibit the free exercise of religion, laws that infringe the freedom of speech, infringe the freedom of the press, limit the right to peaceably assemble, or limit the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

Freedom of speech is not limited to anyone. Even you DennyG.

When it comes to input into political affairs, the church should always be silent.

When the LDS church was fighting gay marriage in California, there was a lip service to the idea that the LDS church does not hate gay people nor want to discriminate against them. I agree that a non-tax paying organization should not have any political access, but since the LDS church does things like prevent two gay people from marriage (but not living together...what message does that send?) and historically has done things like fight the Equal Rights Ammemdment for women, maybe the LDS church can undo some of the damage it has done by supporting these bills. However, I seriously doubt it will happen. My wife and I did not pay tithing this year because I hate to think a portion of my money is going to this increasingly homophobic organization. I now know what church members felt like in the mid '70s when the LDS church was not allowing blacks to hold the priesthood. Is the LDS church going to be on the wrong side of every important human rights movement, or make a different choice?