What did Trevor Lee do to upset the folks in party leadership? Not defending his actions but clearly given this and the failure of his bills to move out of committee shows he's persona non grata for reasons beyond ideology.
@SLCPaladin I find it very fascinating. IMO the Church has doubled down on its most committed members who have gender views that don't match the contemporary economy. Now their PR wing is trying to reach out and neither side correctly believes it's genuine.
Conservatives have rightly complained for years that affluent liberals raise their children conservatively. The discourse around the teen pregnancy rate is the inverse. The folks absolutely do not want this for their kids.
@jkimballcook I agree with this, but symaphtize with the cognitive dissonance of seeing one message from leadership and then a modified message from PR. IMO the leadership has to project a PR image they don't really believe in and I get why some are upset about the incongruity.
A top U.S. government official at FEMA says he was teleported to a Waffle House against his will.
He claims to have travelled 50 miles in an instant and said "teleporting is no fun."
Kudos to Utah State for taking advantage of Brigham Young's NIL and status change. They now get the LDS players who would be at BYU. A real trickle down effect.
@poliARB@NateForUtah Assuming most of these bills are to the right of the median Republican voter but aligned with a convention attendee, they escape an attack from their right on their voting record without having to own the consequences of it.
@JasminRappleye The full interview with Dr. Dyer indicates those who mark "very liberal" are still much more likely to leave than "very conservative." I wonder how many liberal active members remain and conservative disaffiliation is just who's left to leave
@jkimballcook The full interview with Dr. Dyer indicates those who mark "very liberal" are still much more likely to leave than "very conservative." I wonder how many liberal active members remain and conservative disaffiliation is just who's left to leave.
The anthropomorphizing of "data" by men like Jeff Bezos into some kind of oracular Delphi that "tells us what is valuable and where to focus" somehow manages to graft the worst of scientific culture onto the worst of archaic religion.
If nothing changes in Utah, they're basically guaranteeing that the state fall into a permanent California-style housing crisis that forces kids from the state to eventually move away. They need to reduce minimum lot sizes statewide.
@SpencerHort_ I agree with you about this and don't quite understand their hesitancy to just lean into the prosperity. My spitball theory is there's an aversion to "prosperity gospel" thinking and they're worried, somewhat justifiably, that's the road the discourse will take.