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SALT LAKE CITY -- A gay rights group says it is securing Republican support in the Utah state Legislature for anti-discrimination laws. The Deseret News reports members of the Utah Log Cabin Republicans, a gay and lesbian political group, say two bills granting gays extra rights in Utah will have GOP sponsors when they go before the Legislature in the 2010 session. The group is not saying who those sponsors are. One of the measures is similar to an ordinance approved in Salt Lake City that states gay workers can't be fired because of their sexuality. The Deseret News reports...

Some good news on the "birther" front: a Deseret News/KSL-TV poll finds that only 9 percent of Utahns (13 percent of Republicans) "don't believe the president was born in the United States." The biggest population of Obama doubters in the Beehive state? Conservatives, 18 percent of whom believe Obama was born outside the United States, having not been informed by James Kirchick that this whole conspiracy theory is being pushed by liberals. So why does rock-solid Republican Utah have fewer "birthers" than, the deep South, or even fewer than blue Virginia and North Carolina? A lack of racial polarization has...

Here are some images from the Salt Lake City tea party. The opening speaker as the weather threatens. Showing a small portion of the crowd. The sign of the Federal Building and some of the hundreds of signs people brought. MY CONGRESSMAN! Jason Chaffetz (Utah 3rd Congressional District) gave a rousing speech. A pan of the crowd while Jason was speaking. I'd estimate 3,000 people were there. The ground sloped away from the speakers, so it does not like nearly that many. There were also a lot of people off to the sides. Hats for sale. I love capitalism. Utah...