Salt Lake City ‘gayest’ town in U.S.?

World Net Daily/MSNBC ^ | Jan. 10, 2012

[cherry]

what I seem to recall is that SLC is more liberal, but the vast surrounding communities are solid conservative...

[svxdave]

If this is true, as the article title suggests, it is because the people of Salt Lake City are more accepting and less judgmental than other Cities.

[StonyBurk]

No surprises there— and now they hope to put either MittyBoy or Huntsman— or even Ron Paul in the WhiteHouse to advance the Sodomization of America.

[Scoutmaster]

As FR poster Scoutmaster mentioned last Sunday

Colofornian, I believe the context in which I thought I was making that post is relevant. There had been discussion about the difference between practices by individuals and public statements and teachings by the LDS church (this is going to exist in all churches; an issue was whether is was more prevalent in this case and I had not not expressed an opinion).

A poster stated "the [LDS] church also opposes [correctly, of course] pornography in any form." In response I noted the studies regarding porn usage and porn busts in Utah.

There's nothing in the studies saying that all of those porn users are LDS. According to the mormon.wiki, Utah is 72% Mormon. Perhaps the remaining 28% are doubling down on the porn because it's not otherwise available to them in Utah (although with free porn available, I don't understand the number of paid porn subscriptions in Utah, whether it's gays, Methodists, agnostics, Jack Mormons, BIC TBM Mormons, or . . . whether stays in Marriotts count).

I will note that the church didn't oppose porn in any form when in-room porn became a large revenue-producing part of the Marriott chain (over $160 per room, per year).

In 2001, Mitt Romney stepped down from the Marriott Board of Directors over the in-room porn issue, after serving for ten years, when running for Governor of Massachusetts.

He later rejoined the board.

Earlier this year, Mitt Romney stepped down from the Marriott Board again.

Marriott also announced this year that it's phasing out in-room porn. Perhaps because it is no longer moral. Or because Mitt Romney is running for President (Story: Another step toward Romney 2012: Marriott bans porn. (Or The Economist's Story: Marriott, Mitt Romney, and porn. Or because it's no longer such a profit machine.

[Vermont Lt]

Marriott also announced this year that it's phasing out in-room porn.

Or is it because business travel is down so far that the guys sitting alone in the hotel are no longer ordering it?

[Scoutmaster]

Aww, gee. I may have been wrong. Reading more about Marriott, I came across Joanna Brooks, whom I first encountered with the gods and planets bit regarding Bushman (it's lore - never written down) and Jackson (it's a vicious canard). She's a self-proclaimed LDS expert and says there's an epidemic LDS porn addiction.

Joanna Brooks. The LDS blogger who calls herself Mormon Girl and who tweets so successfully on LDS/political issues as @askmormongirl that Politico named her as one of 2011's Top 50 Politicos To Watch. The 'scholar of religion and spirituality" whose writing, according to her website:

"has appeared as a source on contemporary Mormonism by the New York Times, Reuters, Salt Lake Tribune, Washington Post, Salon, BBC Sky News, New America Media, Pittsburgh Gazette-Post, The Tennessean, Headline News Network, Fox News, the Boston Globe, Newsweek, and the Deseret News."

That Juanita Brooks.

The says that LDS communities have an epidemic porn problem and that Marriott's not doing this to help Mitt Romney, but in lockstep with the LDS Church's serious campaign. (If so, then why is Marriott only phasing out the porn?). Per Ms. Brooks:

"The story that’s in the news—that Marriott dropped porn to give Mitt political cover from evangelicals—may have it entirely backwards. After all, the LDS Church is on a serious anti-porn campaign to deal with epidemic porn addiction in LDS communities. And frankly I wouldn’t be surprised if the Marriott change was spurred by a heart-to-heart conversation with someone at the Church Office Building. Among Mormons, porn is considered a very serious problem, primarily for the damage it does to the marriages and families of the porn-addicted."

[Scoutmaster]

Or is it because business travel is down so far that the guys sitting alone in the hotel are no longer ordering it?

Could be. But enough people are traveling that Marriott's opening new hotels. The story is that they are phasing out the porn in the new hotels they'll be opening over the next three years. My guess is that the payment for the in-room porn is probably also based on a per-view basis. They're going to keep the movie units in place so people can watch regular movies - so it's just the matter of paying for the specially-cut Marriott porn.

Last sentence I wrote: "Or because it's no longer such a profit machine." The articles I linked mentioned that travelers often check in with laptops that have porn loaded, or with portable players, or Slingboxes.

[svcw]

PM

[svcw]

Nice spin.

[Scoutmaster]

You haven’t been to gay til you have been to Key West.

We have a winner. I've been to: San Francisco; Houston; Decatur, GA (if we're counting lesbians); Austin; and all the other places mentioned (I travel a lot for work).

Key West is the major leagues, The Show. The rest are Triple AAA.

[Georgia Girl 2]

You have definitely been to Key West. LOL!

[Elsie]

I'm a MORMON ...

 

 

 

http://www.affirmation.org/

[Scoutmaster]

You have definitely been to Key West. LOL!

Aw, gee, again. Basically, although I'm an attorney (we make mistakes in our youth), I research, write, and speak for a living. My son says I write two term papers a week. I did a little check. Key West didn't win, according to one source, if you use "couples" as the key. Key West didn't even place or show. And North Druid Hills, GA and Decatur, GA are Atlanta suburbs that nestle each other right at Emory University.

Cities with the highest percentage of same-sex couples:

Of course, if everybody's just running around NOT putting Tab A in Slot B - but all of the Tab A's are just having a merry old time without coupling, and all of the Slot B's are doing likewise, I guess the report wouldn't count them.

Where Do Gay and Lesbian Couples Live?

Key West only makes #7 on this list (behind Decatur, GA - mentioned above, which is Key West's lesbian equivalent): Top 101 cities with the largest percentage of likely homosexual households. Wilton Manors, FL, and West Hollywood, CA win.

[Scoutmaster]

*laughing*. Decatur, GA, North Druid Hills, GA, Scottdale, GA, and North Decatur, GA are all in the Top 24 on that list of 101.

HELLO Agnes Scott College! (and Emory University professors)

Decatur and North Druid Hills are both on the list, one before Key West and one after, #6, 7, and 9.

As GayNeighborhoods.com says (I SWEAR I didn't know the site existed until I started researching this right now) about Decatur, GA: " a mecca for lesbians and the whole gay community."

Atlanta itself is #32.

Those other four areas are 'communities' that stretch from Emory University to Agnes Scott College (it's . . . umm . . where the Indigo Girls started, both Emory grads). That area apparently beats Key West.

[Scoutmaster]

Time to brew up a DDT to stop the liberal disease!

Trust me, I don't believe it. But if you listen to Ron Paul, the government may tried brewing up a DDT for one reason or another.

Ron Paul's newsletters. The gift that keeps on giving.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Decatur would have to rank right up there among gay neighborhoods for sure.

[Vermont Lt]

I am not a big connoisseur of porn, mind you. And I get your point about everyone bringing their own.

I have to tell you I gasped just a little when the thought crossed my mind that my Conservative New England Community Bank laptop would have porn on it back in the day.

The IT people would have surely had a heart attack had they found that! ha ha.

[Scoutmaster]

I read a few more articles and then went on to reading for work. Marriott says it’s going to phase out in-room porn over the next five years, not three. Apparently there’s still too much money too be made to just stop showing it now. Or to phase it out in only three years.