Mormon Democrats

An excellent blogger in Utah said he had never talked to a Mormon that was not a Republican.  Therefore LaRocco started his campaign for senator from Idaho with a 36% deficit - the percentage of Idahoans who are Mormons.

Meet some, friend.

Frankly I get a queasy feeling visiting a site like MormonDemocrats as if I am intruding on people discussing their affairs and not mine.  Just a feeling but I won't be bookmarking the site and probably won't be back.  

Some items found here might be of general interest and hope.  Have faith. :-)

This diary in the MormonDemocrats blog was an eye catcher for this stranger:

Abortion and the Church

...The Church’s position on abortion has always been subject to misunderstanding and misrepresentation. The Church’s official position, as announced in 1973, is as follows:

"The Church opposes abortion and counsels its members not to submit to or perform an abortion except in the rare cases where, in the opinion of competent medical counsel, the life or good health of the mother is seriously endangered or where the pregnancy was caused by rape and produces serious emotional trauma in the mother...

The first comment has this:

Partial birth Abortion is a medical procedure , period

Well how do you do.

One can see this as a positive affirmation of Obama's opening to the right-to-lifers or, in my own view, a needless compromise of principle.  In either case it is way far away from the fundamentalist position that abortion is murder and proscribed in any instance.

Then there is this aging piece from the Deseret News:

Mormon Democrats link up in Congress

Caucus aims to show that LDS, Demos a good mix

...Under the direction of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Nevada, three of four members of the caucus met earlier this week...

Some here may have heard of the leader of the caucus. :-)

Maybe Larry LaRocco is not in such a deep hole after all.

The Western Democrat blog clearly representing sagebrush country that I came from long ago is more comfortable for me though it is not really so different from the Mormon Democrats blog. There is a nice quote from Lee Iacocca:

"Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the Titanic..."

and then:

The Right to Keep and Bear Arms

...On balance this ruling is good news for Western Democrats...

Hey this is the Real West you know.

None of this should dismiss very real concerns that remain about guns and crime

Golly bill, the Real West must have changed a lot since I lived there.  I am suddenly feeling awful old.

I am making a trip passing through my birthplace of Adel, OR, in a couple of weeks.  Adel, the town that was named for somebody's sweetheart or a cow, is about the remotest remote you can find anywhere.  The town, grocery store, cafe, pool hall, post office, branding iron museum and everything else is here:

The whole dang town has been expanded and modernized.  No respect for tradition.  What can you do?  Won't hardly recognize the place.  Wonder if they even carted off the covered wagon that was over on the side where the shed is.  Dang it all.

Mormons took over after we wrecked the whole damn valley.  Well not us.  It was those other guys.  Bill Kittredge has written brutally honest tales about an ecological disaster wreaked in Warner Valley that is pretty much a match or more for anything the coal mining companies have done to West Virginia.

The Kittredges did one good turn for the state of Oregon.  Once the empire demanded the presence of the Republican governor.  The governor dutifully complied. He took along the lieutenant governor and attorney general on the plane.  The plane crashed.  There were no survivors. The Republicans had controlled the state - forever.  Never been the same since.

Later the Kittredges went broke after they broke the valley.

Get a chance to talk to folks in the general store I betcha they won't be too happy with Bush.

The Crump Geyser the way she was:

The way the Crump Geyeser is:

Something old, something is and a foreshadowing of what will be.

The geese are back.  They have opened up the schools again.  They painted the store. Farmers are farming.  And in the not too distant future now there will be an abundance of geothermal power.

And Obama will be president and lots of Mormons and other good people will have voted for him.

Life is good.  Mormons are a wonderful part of that picture as all people are.  

Best,  Terry