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Author: Chino Blanco

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Utah House Majority Leader Kevin Garn Gets His Standing Ovation

Chino Blanco, March 16, 2010May 25, 2011
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BYU Management Society to award NOM director Orson Scott Card

Chino Blanco, March 8, 2010May 17, 2011

X-posted. From the press release: The Washington, D.C. Chapter of the BYU Management Society (BYUMS-DC) announced today that it would honor best-selling author and columnist Orson Scott Card at its annual Gala Dinner on April 24, 2010. Card will receive the chapter’s Distinguished Public Service Award and will deliver keynote…

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Guest post: A sheep in wolfs clothing

Chino Blanco, March 1, 2010May 17, 2011

Mitt Romney is kicking off his 19-state book tour this week with appearances on Letterman’s “Late Show,” NBC’s “Today Show,” ABC’s “The View,” Fox’s “Sean Hannity Show” and a speech at the National Press Club in D.C. All apologies, but as speeches go, I tend to find Mitt’s to be…

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The Alternate Universe that is Utah, Part 2

Chino Blanco, March 1, 2010March 17, 2010

All you need to know about the 2010 legislative session. As one Capitol lobby lurker mused: “I wonder why no one has called for secession? Then, we’d finally know the message bills have gone too far.”

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“Up in the Air” rocks, but winning “X-Mormon of the Year” rules.

Chino Blanco, February 5, 2010February 5, 2010

Walter Kirn explains why the William Law X-Mormon of the Year award means more to him than anything Hollywood has to offer:

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Mormon pollster Gary Lawrence: I’m the idiot who wrote “Six Consequences”

Chino Blanco, February 1, 2010September 3, 2011

Joanna Brooks has a worthy piece on Mormon Prop 8 involvement currently up on the front page of Religion Dispatches. This next bit is just me filling in a (minor) gap in the reporting: “A primary source of Mormon messaging during the Proposition 8 campaign was the anonymously-authored ‘Six Consequences…

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LDS Public Affairs false flag op?

Chino Blanco, January 13, 2010June 21, 2011

The latest from Utah’s ABC4: Mormon church documents headed to Prop 8 trial: “ABC 4 News is … being told that copies of these documents were sent by special courier to the [San Francisco] City Attorney’s office [co-counsel in the California federal case] and they were sent in just the…

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LDS candidate announces Mormon-only male-only campaign rallies

Chino Blanco, December 21, 2009September 3, 2011

From Rexburg’s Standard Journal : Idaho gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell will be mixing what he calls doctrines from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints into his gubernatorial campaign in a series of meetings slated for LDS elders only. In January, Rammell will kick off a series of special…

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8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION gets a Sundance premiere

Chino Blanco, December 4, 2009October 1, 2011

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EMAIL: Press@mormonproposition.com DAVID v. GOLIATH PRODUCTIONS announced this week that their new and highly anticipated documentary, 8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION, a film by Reed Cowan & narrated by Oscar-winning writer of MILK, Dustin Lance Black, will debut its world premiere at the world renowned SUNDANCE…

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Mormon leadership comes out in support of (some) basic rights for (some) LGBT Utahns

Chino Blanco, November 11, 2009June 21, 2011

Video from the public hearing, featuring Michael Otterson, Eric Ethington (local blogger/activist and genuinely nice guy), Deeda Seed, and Jonas from the all-Brazilian America Forever bigot brigade: Text of LDS statement after the break.

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