Posts Tagged ‘Orrin Hatch’

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How the Mormon Church Developed the John Birch Society

on October 27th, 2012 at 9:03 pm

  The Mormon Church has always staked out positions among the political far right. In the 1920′s Reed Smoot, the first Mormon senator and the most powerful LDS leader in politics at the time, was good friends with Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. By passing the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, Hoover sent America into the Great Depression. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Mormon Senator Orrin Hatch Says White House Is Lying About Benghazi

on October 15th, 2012 at 12:45 am

Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, member of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, became the highest ranking Mormon in the U.S. government to push the Benghazi conspiracy theory.  Saturday in Mesquite, Nevada, Hatch commented on the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. Hatch minced no words as he parroted other […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Getting to Know Mormondom’s Avenging Angel, Orrin Porter Rockwell

on September 27th, 2012 at 11:54 pm

We all know Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett,  folk heroes of the American frontier. Mormon children have their own folk hero, a man few outside the LDS Church have ever heard of. His name is, Orrin Porter Rockwell, “Mormondom’s Avenging Angel.” Rockwell lived in the 1800′s and, because LDS founder Joseph Smith said he’d never […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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How the Mainstream Media Missed the Biggest Story of the RNC Convention

on September 1st, 2012 at 1:42 am

How could the mainstream media miss the biggest story of the year?  Were they distracted by the shiny object, Clint Eastwood’s bumbling and insulting performance, we’re they rutted in the traditional narrative of covering the acceptance speech of a presidential candidate and didn’t see it, or did they just decide to pass on a story […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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The LDS Excommunication of ERA Supporter Sonia Johnson

on August 23rd, 2012 at 11:53 am

Sonia Johnson was a PhD college professor, mother of four, active in the Mormon Church, and a strong proponent for the Equal Rights Amendment. According to the book, The Mormon Corporate Empire,  ”Her refusal to toe the Church’s anti-ERA policy eventually brought charges that she had spread false doctrine and worked against Church leadership.” The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Romney’s Mormon Surrogates Let Loose

on July 1st, 2012 at 2:37 am

Mormons, Mormons everywhere, but not a drop of empathy anywhere. While most of the country celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision making President Obama’s Affordable Care Act constitutional, Mitt Romney’s Mormon surrogates were on a mission of their own. First up was Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah; Lee, a former clerk to Justice Samuel Alito who attended […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Mitt Romney Used Affirmative Action to Get Ahead

on April 21st, 2012 at 2:34 pm

The scandal plagued 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City needed someone to try and repair Utah’s image. The Salt Lake Organizing Committee had bribed Olympic deciders with scholarships, real estate, jobs, cash, and anything else they could get a hold of, and they turned to Mitt Romney to repair their image. With the help of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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