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It Could Be His Party. The Salt Lake Tribune Mobile Edition. This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2012, and information in the article may be outdated.

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It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted. I appreciated LDS Apostle Dallin Oaks calling our attention at General Conference to the need to better care for our children ("Mormon leader decries divorce, abortion, same-sex parents," Tribune, Oct. 6). There is one aspect of this theme that we all could be more aware of — the need to better care for our children who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender. According to the impeccable research done by Dr.

Caitlin Ryan of San Francisco State University in her landmark Family Acceptance Project ( LGBT young people whose parents reject them are: eight times as likely to attempt suicide, six times as likely to report high levels of depression, three times as likely to use illegal drugs and three times as likely to be at high risk for HIV and sexually-transmitted diseases. Carol Lynn Pearson. Timothy Kurek, Straight Christian Man, 'Comes Out' And Pretends To Be Gay For A Year. The Lies behind Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) By Dr.

The Lies behind Genetically Modified Organism (GMO)

Mercola The Atlantici recently reported on the findings of new research into the claims made for the safety and efficacy of genetically engineered foods. The authors of the report GMO Myths and Truthsii took a science-based approach to evaluating the available research, and came to the conclusion that most of the scientific evidence regarding safety and increase yield potential do not support the claims made at all. In fact, the evidence demonstrates that the claims for genetically engineered foods are not just wildly overblown; they simply aren't true...

Three Sources of Adverse Health Effects from Genetically Engineered Foods Syngenta Charged for Covering up Livestock Deaths from GE Corn Over the years, genetically engineered crops have proven disastrous for animals, although the conventional media has done a remarkable job of keeping such details from the public. The Health Effects of GE Feed on Livestock GE Crops Seriously Threatens Reproductive Health According to Dr.

The Human Face of Big Data Compares You to Millions of People Around the World. Teaching Tolerance. Two Presidents, Smoking and Scheming. The Keynesian Under the Table: What Reagan's Supply-Side Defenders Keep Getting Wrong. The Turk was the most incredible thing that most people in late-18th century Europe had ever seen: an automaton who could play chess—and win.

The Keynesian Under the Table: What Reagan's Supply-Side Defenders Keep Getting Wrong

Between 1770 and 1820, Nobles and heads of state—from Napoleon to Benjamin Franklin lined up to match wits with Wolfgang von Kempelen’s marvelous thinking machine. And the Turk almost always won, causing many to fear—more than 200 years before an IBM supercomputer vanquished human chess master Garry Kasparov—the obsolescence of the human mind. But it was all a trick. There was no machine, just an automaton sitting on top of a box that concealed a diminutive human chess master—a dwarf who had been trained to pull the levers and make it appear that the automaton was moving the pieces. Which, of course, brings us to Keynesian economics, or the theory of John Maynard Keynes that the best way for the government to handle a recession is to borrow money, spend lavishly, and stimulate the economy.

And there is another dwarf under the table.

Obama

Romney. Gun Control NOW.