Neil Giuliano ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Giuliano ) was Mayor of Tempe, and is now President of GLAAD, a posting I discovered nearly 2 years after it occurred. Because no one HERE (on the news or in my ‘socioeconomic level’) said much of anything. It’s not as if we can’t get elected in AZ, just that everyone else pretends they didn’t hear the ‘gay’ part.

Except that Steven Carrington’s on ‘Heroes’ and this guy’s family is pretty much in my backyard. I sometimes feel that the rest of the country doesn’t know from Mormons but what they see on the TV or in films (and no, ‘Latter Days’ would be F-A-N-T-A-S-Y, gurlz). That they’re quite simply an older cult than Scientology doesn’t make the precepts of their faith any more legitimate (must suck being lied to by your own founder, in either case), but I’m usually of the thinking that if a religion can generally improve your life and help you in your relationships with your loved ones, then it’s OK by me.

I won’t be responsible for making this thread a LDS bash-a-thon, but here is at least one example of how ‘loved ones’ fall right through the cracks…when it’s less “Did he fall?” than “Was he pushed?” I guess I’ll be choosing a different sweetener from now on.