What's great here is that the booze laws slow down the LA types. Not just a red state...
RED
Posted on 04/21/2005 9:32:00 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Utah May Be One of Fastest-Growing States
By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press Writer
April 21, 2005, 7:42 AM EDT
SALT LAKE CITY -- With a big influx of retirees and lots of fertile, family-minded Mormons, Utah is projected to be one of the five fastest-growing states over the next three decades.
The Census Bureau said Thursday that Utah's population is expected to increase 56 percent, or by more than 1.2 million people, between 2000 and 2030. Nevada and Arizona are expected to double in population, and a gain of nearly 80 percent is projected in Florida and almost 60 percent in Texas.
One reason for the boom in Utah is the Mormon church. It is estimated at least 70 percent of the state's 2.2 million residents are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Because of the church's emphasis on big families, Utah's fertility rate is 2.56 children per woman of childbearing age, the highest in the nation. (The national rate was 2.03 in 2001.) The state also has the nation's highest average of people per household, 3.13, and the lowest median age, 27.5.
It also has one of the nation's fastest-growing older populations. Its 65-and-older population has climbed 27 percent in the past 10 years, and will rise an additional 28 percent in the next decade, according to the Utah Division of Aging and Adult Services.
Retiring baby boomers -- many of them from California -- are moving to Utah, often drawn by the red-rock beauty of the southern part of the state.
Judy and Steve Merrill moved to St. George, billed unofficially as Utah's retirement capital, last fall from their home in northern Virginia. They previously owned a second home in Arizona.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
I, however, am 'Mormon', and I strongly disagree. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (aka the Mormon church) is a church based on revelation. It does not involve itself in politics. Just because the homosexual lobby (which we strongly disagree with, on moral principle) is pushing for acceptance of gay marriage, doesn't mean we will jump on the bandwagon. There will be no push for polygamy by any LDS anywhere, I guarantee it. And what does being one of the fastest growning states have to do with legalizing polygamy?
What's great here is that the booze laws slow down the LA types. Not just a red state...
RED
The homeless are packing their bags as we speak.
Oh, and one more thing. Browning Arms is a Utah company
And as I was saying..........
I have a friend who live in Ogden, he and his wife are momon. They have 9 count them 9 kids. Nuff said.
Uh....so why are you here?
Utah is big on Mormon Polygamy. That's why I suggested it.
BTW, I didn't know that your Church was based on Revelation. No kidding. I'm a HUGE follower of Biblical prophecy. Well, I learn something new here every day.
(I'm Baptist, so we're based on Baptizing with the Holy Spirit).
...like a virus...
We have them coming in droves to BC...not like we need their help with liberal policies up there...
Spoken like someone who knows nothing of the Mormon Church.
Yeah. All I know is the Mormons in Utah want lots of wives. That's about all I know about Utah. It's not big for news stories, I guess.
I have a friend who's a member of the latter day saints. He's a nice guy. I don't talk to him about it, though. He has his church, and I have mine.
Actually the LDS church temporarily abandoned polygamy around 1904 and really started enforcing this ban in 1906 with purges in 1907 that resulted in excommunication and disfellowshipment outcomes in church courts for anyone entering post-1904 polygamous relations. The LDS church issued a Manifesto in 1890 to temporarily stop new polygamous marriages in Utah so they could get statehood. During the Reed Smoot hearings it was exposed that there were still some polygamy marriage happening, including one in 1896 when Wilford Woodruff took another plural wife. Polygamous marriages were being performed on the High Seas, Mexico and out-of-state in small numbers with great secrecy. However, as far as anyone can tell, the LDS First Presidency has been very strong in enforcing the Polygamy ban since 1904.
This temporary ban is still in-force but all honest church members acknowledge that it's just a temporary ban. If Polygamy can be legalized then the LDS church will probably resume it's practice. See http://scriptures.lds.org/dc/132 for the text of the church's doctrine on polygamy.
Nah. I just checked it out. I'm not that interested. The "Prophet" for their Church supported liberal Gore/Leiberman. That's about all I need to know.
If you disapprove of the Mormons in Utah, talk to them, not me. I'm Baptist. I'm happy with just one spouse! Lord knows that's enough for me!
We do work at it, however there are quite a few problems with old cars, tractors, broken down implements and litter. We are trying to implement attitudes that bring the look and feel to this clean look.
I read that book out of curiosity once. The Pearl of Great Price, right? The bad guys won in the end. I didn't find it very motivational at all!
Not gonna happen. I just moved here to Utah at the first of the year, and the regular Mormons regard polygamists as freaks. I was even in a store yesterday with an ex-Mormon friend, and she pointed out some polygamists that just came in the store, it was like having someone point out to you a green alien with antennae. The Mormons are sick and tired of the polygamy jokes they endure when they go outside of the state, they now have a knee-jerk reaction to anyone who mentions the subject. I have a "Polygamy Porter" beer T-shirt (their motto, 'Why Have Just One?') that I can only wear to the Elks Club, where smoking and drinking go on.
If you want to know why Utah is growing so fast, there are two causes: There has been an influx from California and a few other states, and the locals still breed like Catholics used to do in the fifties. Whenever I go to the supermarket during the daytime, I usually see women with three kids under five in tow, and you know there are more in school from that family. Houses tend to be quite large in the newer subdivisions, a minimum of four bedrooms. You pass school zones every 1000 feet on the arterials, it can be a problem when you have to get somewhere quickly at closing time.
Utah was solidly behind an anti-gay marriage constitutional provision that was on last November's ballot, voters see no connection between their possibly polygamous ancestors of a century or so ago, and homosexual marriage.
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