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2015-04-30 22:29:10 UTC
He should have clubbed their faces into hamburger. Gays would
rather eat fecal matter than riot.
Eric Moutsos, the former cop who resigned from the Salt Lake
City Police Department after he was suspended for refusing to
ride his motorcycle in the Pride Parade last year, has been in
the middle of a previous gay-rights controversy.
Moutsos, who has gone to work as a fundraiser and community-
outreach organizer for the conservative Sutherland Institute
think tank, was the officer who cited two gay men for
trespassing on LDS property in 2009.
The misdemeanor charges against Matt Aune and Derek Jones were
dropped by then-Salt Lake City prosecutor Sim Gill, who said the
men had a reasonable belief they had a right to be on the Main
Street Plaza, a former public street purchased by The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Gill said signs needed to be more explicit about the private
nature of the property. (Such signs now exist.)
Aune and Jones were detained by LDS security officers, who said
the two refused their commands to leave the plaza. The two men
alleged they were harassed because they were gay and showed
affection to each other.
Moutsos was the Salt Lake City police officer who responded. In
his police report, he wrote the two men were "kissing and
hugging on [LDS] property."
The dispute made national headlines and prompted a "kiss-in"
protest that attracted about 100 couples near the plaza, where
gay and straight couples affectionately kissed and wore paper
hearts.
Moutsos resigned from the police department after he was placed
on paid leave for refusing to ride in the parade last June. He
cited his religious convictions for his refusal.
His new employer, the Sutherland Institute, has been in the
forefront of efforts to ban same-sex marriage and to prop up
religious liberties.
'Hotel California' I once had the opposite problem on LDS
Church property.
When the church constructed its massive Conference Center on
North Temple, my wife, Dawn, and I walked up to the rooftop
garden one evening to check out the scenery.
A tour group was there. When we started to descend the exterior
stairs, the guide said we couldn't leave. We had to stay with
the group. She ignored my explanation that we never were with
the tour.
We were standing near the stairs and Dawn said, "Let's make a
run for it."
The woman heard her and responded, "There are guards at the
bottom. They'll catch you."
So we stayed for the whole tour, and I missed the first half of
a World Series game.
Marriage-protection vet Utah Valley University President
Matthew Holland a co-signer of the much-ridiculed amicus brief
in the same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court
that uses strained logic to say gay marriage would lead to
900,000 abortions is a veteran of the "traditional" marriage
cause.
The brief was submitted by attorney Gene Schaerr, who
unsuccessfully defended Utah's gay-marriage ban in the federal
courts. The brief boasts 100 co-signers, including 13 from Utah.
Tribune editorial writer George Pyle, who mentioned Holland's
involvement in his Sunday column, was told in a UVU statement
that Holland's personal opinion did not affect the school's
official policies, which promote inclusion, diversity and
tolerance.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/2455935-155/rolly-remember-the-gay-
kiss-on
rather eat fecal matter than riot.
Eric Moutsos, the former cop who resigned from the Salt Lake
City Police Department after he was suspended for refusing to
ride his motorcycle in the Pride Parade last year, has been in
the middle of a previous gay-rights controversy.
Moutsos, who has gone to work as a fundraiser and community-
outreach organizer for the conservative Sutherland Institute
think tank, was the officer who cited two gay men for
trespassing on LDS property in 2009.
The misdemeanor charges against Matt Aune and Derek Jones were
dropped by then-Salt Lake City prosecutor Sim Gill, who said the
men had a reasonable belief they had a right to be on the Main
Street Plaza, a former public street purchased by The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Gill said signs needed to be more explicit about the private
nature of the property. (Such signs now exist.)
Aune and Jones were detained by LDS security officers, who said
the two refused their commands to leave the plaza. The two men
alleged they were harassed because they were gay and showed
affection to each other.
Moutsos was the Salt Lake City police officer who responded. In
his police report, he wrote the two men were "kissing and
hugging on [LDS] property."
The dispute made national headlines and prompted a "kiss-in"
protest that attracted about 100 couples near the plaza, where
gay and straight couples affectionately kissed and wore paper
hearts.
Moutsos resigned from the police department after he was placed
on paid leave for refusing to ride in the parade last June. He
cited his religious convictions for his refusal.
His new employer, the Sutherland Institute, has been in the
forefront of efforts to ban same-sex marriage and to prop up
religious liberties.
'Hotel California' I once had the opposite problem on LDS
Church property.
When the church constructed its massive Conference Center on
North Temple, my wife, Dawn, and I walked up to the rooftop
garden one evening to check out the scenery.
A tour group was there. When we started to descend the exterior
stairs, the guide said we couldn't leave. We had to stay with
the group. She ignored my explanation that we never were with
the tour.
We were standing near the stairs and Dawn said, "Let's make a
run for it."
The woman heard her and responded, "There are guards at the
bottom. They'll catch you."
So we stayed for the whole tour, and I missed the first half of
a World Series game.
Marriage-protection vet Utah Valley University President
Matthew Holland a co-signer of the much-ridiculed amicus brief
in the same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court
that uses strained logic to say gay marriage would lead to
900,000 abortions is a veteran of the "traditional" marriage
cause.
The brief was submitted by attorney Gene Schaerr, who
unsuccessfully defended Utah's gay-marriage ban in the federal
courts. The brief boasts 100 co-signers, including 13 from Utah.
Tribune editorial writer George Pyle, who mentioned Holland's
involvement in his Sunday column, was told in a UVU statement
that Holland's personal opinion did not affect the school's
official policies, which promote inclusion, diversity and
tolerance.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/2455935-155/rolly-remember-the-gay-
kiss-on