How Much Did Ender's Game Lose?

Most insiders say anti-gay activist and Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card does not have a financial stake in the performance of the movie, but still it must sting that his calling card title so stunk up the joint. The film has largely left first-run theaters, but even adding in international grosses and future video sales, at this point there's no doubt that its failure means there won't be a sequel. Pity.

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Meanwhile In Provo...

Utah County is the home to Brigham Young University.

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Quote Of The Day - Seth Anderson

"Today, December 23, Republican Governor Gary Herbert has declared the State of Utah will go before a judge to 'defend traditional marriage within the borders of Utah.' I don’t know how he can say that as a Utahan and as a Mormon. Traditional marriage in Utah is non-traditional. How delightfully ironic that today, December 23, Mormons will remember the birthday of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, a man who had 34 wives, 1/3 of whom married Joseph while simultaneously married to other men and 1/3 of whom were under the age of 20. The founder of Salt Lake City and colonizer of Utah, Brigham Young, had 55 wives and 34 children. 21 of his wives had never been married, 16 were widows, 6 were divorced, and 6 had living husbands." - Seth Anderson (right), who married on Friday in Utah's first-ever legal same-sex wedding.

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Mormon Paper: This Is Judicial Tyranny

From the Mormon Church-owned Deseret News:

The essence of judicial tyranny is when a single, unelected federal judge declares the laws and constitution of an entire state null and void with an opinion clothed in the barest of legal precedent. It is true that state efforts to restrict marriage on the basis of race have run afoul of the federal constitutional protections against racial discrimination. But as we scour the legal landscape, we find no 10th Circuit or Supreme Court precedent that prevents Utah from adhering to a traditional definition of marriage. Nonetheless, Judge Shelby’s blithe mix-and-match approach to legal argumentation has, for the time being, created a new class of same-gender applicants deemed “married” under the Utah Constitution.

(Tipped by JMG reader Chris)

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Mormon Church Reacts To Marriage Ruling

"This ruling by a district court will work its way through the judicial process. We continue to believe that voters in Utah did the right thing by providing clear direction in the state Constitution that marriage should be between a man and a woman and we are hopeful that this view will be validated by a higher court." - Eric Hawkins, spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Quote Of The Day - Alan Osmond

"We regulate the institution of marriage based on gender complementarity. When marriage fails, our state law works to protect the child’s relationship with both the mother and the father, not based on what the parents want, but based on the child’s right to have both genders modeled in his life. Owning children irrelevant to their own emotional or biological needs for both mother and father, creates a solid foundation for human trafficking. If we end gender as a 'sex designated at birth' and replace it with gender as an 'orientation,' all of these gender based protections will end, legalizing gay adoption and gay in vitro-fertilization, punishing those who decline to participate." - Alan Osmond, writing for the Osmond family website. (Tipped by JMG reader Dave)

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Posted in: bigotry,gay adoption,gay families,Mormons,Osmonds,religion,transgender issues,Utah