Posted on 10/10/2010 6:10:09 AM PDT by zippythepinhead
By Lisa Carricaburu
The Salt Lake Tribune Published Oct 9, 2010 04:01PM Updated 1 hour ago Updated Oct 9, 2010 11:04PM
The Lexington, Ky., Herald-Leader in 2004 famously apologized to its readers.
In a lengthy front-page clarification, the newspaper said its shortcoming was one of omission 40 years earlier: Publisher Fred Wachs, despite personally supporting desegregation, had actively downplayed the civil rights movement. The paper advised staffers not to report on civil unrest and buried any stories they did produce deep inside.
“He didn’t like the idea of some of these rabble-rousers coming in and causing trouble,” his son, Fred Wachs Jr., recalled in the clarification. Like a number of publishers in the South, he saw the demonstrators as bad for business and believed silencing them might make them go away.
They didn’t go away, of course, and the Herald-Leader on June 4, 2004, marked the 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by acknowledging it had failed to fulfill its role in a democracy. Through omission, it had failed to give voice to the voiceless, to inform the debate on issues of the day, to provide a first, rough draft of history.
The Salt Lake Tribune hopes never to make the same mistake.
Gay rights?What does that mean,more sodomy in public,child molestation,and spread of VD?
If you prohibit states from refraining to express approval of men having anal sex with other men, who is one to say you can't have more than one wife?
Are they on Media Death watch?
All they are admitting is what everyone knows. Newspapers propagandize one way or the other.
That is why no one reads them anymore.
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A quote from the article: this is the civil rights movement of our time.
The way an individual has sex is not a civil rights issue. It is not the equivalent of skin color. This lie is insidious and destructive to society.
I don’t trust the LDS on social issues. That’s because I cannot escape the suspicion that they bankrolled Prop 8 for the sole purpose of giving Mitt Romney pro-family bona fides with Evangelicals who would otherwise oppose him and remember his pro-gay actions as Governor. The LDS’ actions since Prop 8’s passage - such as supporting a Salt Lake City pro-gay ordinance, make me trust them even less.
Where can you read these remarks in full to see what the gay mafia is protesting? If the pink mafia has their thongs in such a twist, I’m betting whatever was said was so close to the truth that it hit a raw nerve.
I don’t trust the LDS on social issues. That’s because I cannot escape the suspicion that they bankrolled Prop 8 for the sole purpose of giving Mitt Romney pro-family bona fides with Evangelicals who would otherwise oppose him and remember his pro-gay actions as Governor.
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Just WOW
You may have something there...
I thought it was an excuse not to support McCain/Palin..
The money, and effort spent in CA would have gone a long way to help get JM elected...
I thought some sour grapes over the rejection of Romney was involved...
But your explanation is even better...
However wheres a pretend turn around of Romneys life time pro-abortion creds...
How are the suits in SLC going to handle that one ???
Thats one of the reasons I didnt vote for him...
Sounds like you have a conspiracy theory here. The thread is not about Mitt Romney. It is about the SL Tribune bias against the LDS Church.
Personally I don’t care what you think about the LDS faith on social issues. Not being rude here, just not keeping me awake at night in a cold sweat with restless legs :P
No actually we gave up polygamy in 1890. This sounds like a troll post.
Exactly. Objective reporting my A$$! The Tribune is always fishing for a war. Instead they are getting gays and their sympathizers all stirred up and the average Mormon rolling their eyes.
Agreed. This is not a civil rights issue. It is an agenda by the gay rights ilk that we will all embrace homosexuality as right and love the act as well. Bow down to the giant rainbow flag.
The truth hurts sometimes. Call what I am doing evil you Mormons with by boyfriends in the bathroom? Why I will show you. I will protest! Holding breath.....
I am LDS and I am weary of Romney also. But I would vote for Romney over Obama any day. In fact I would vote for Alan Colmes over Obama.
Thats interesting...
You said you were “weary of Romney also”
What does that mean ???
His politics ??? What ???
You miss the /s?
Some of his politics. Just because a man like Romney shares my faith, doesn’t mean he has my vote. I vote for the man or woman based on the total conservative package they bring to the table. Romney has some desirable and questionable political stances. States rights on one and compulsive health care in Massachusetts in another.
Harry Reid is a Mormon and I can’t wait to see him fired! I hope this answers your question.
I understand your social issues stance. The SL ordinance issue was mind boggling to me as well. I guess it was a good will gesture.
I do know this the LDS Church will not budge on two issues. Homosexuality is a sin and legalization of same sex marriage.
Please expound? Spelling? Substance? Point?....
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