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| Utah has a 6 month old mutual commitment registry, which, if taken advantage of, should permit non-married couples (including same sex partnerships) the opportunities afforded of married couples. I've pasted a description of the registry at the end of this post. Today's Salt Lake Tribune's article on the registry highlights a gay couple and their impressions so far of the registry. Mostly, it seems, it's more of a symbolic gesture at this point. No concrete benefits have been realized yet by couples and no employer has yet to offer domestic partner benefits Still, for Utah, this is progress. What is the mutual-commitment registry?
Unmarried couples, both same sex and opposite sex, and other pairs of financially interdependent adults, such as person who cares for an aging parent, can sign up. The voluntary registry allows Salt Lake City to recognize nonmarried relationships of mutual commitment and support.
What are the benefits?
Employers who offer domestic-partner benefits can use the registry to determine a worker's eligibility. Registered individuals will be allowed visitation rights at city hospitals and access to family discounts offered at city-owned facilities, such as recreation centers.
What do residents have to do to enroll?
- Sign a statement, provided by the city recorder, declaring you are "solely and mutually committed to each other." - Document that both partners are at least 18 years old, unmarried and share a primary address in Salt Lake City. - Pay a $25 fee. - Agree to terminate the mutual-commitment contract if the relationship ends. - Prove financial interdependence by providing three supporting documents.
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| It's been well over a year since Sugarhouse merchants were forced to move from their locations so that a rich developer could level the building and erect a newer high rise structure. Well, the building was leveled (nearly a year ago), but nothing else has happened. Today's Deseret news reports that developer Craig Mecham has been issued the directive by Salt Lake City to fill the "crater" that sits in the middle of the Sugarhouse buisness district. Of course Mr. Mecham has complained to the city about the cost of leveling the old structure and blames the city's plannign commission for not helping him move his project along more quickly and claims that he is not in a financial position to obtain financing and feels he is being singled out. Give me a break. Mecham should have put all his ducks in a row before he ever evicted the tenants that made Sugarhouse what is was. As it is now, the tenants are gone, many of them not yet able to open their businesses elsewhere and the heart of Sugarhouse is ruined, inlcuding the economical impact of Mecham's irresponsible, greedy actions. | |
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| Rosa Clemente, Green Party Vice Presidential candidate talk at New York University Oct 10 Community Organizing and Electoral Politics Women involvement in activism and electoral politics Rosa's political history, the Green Party, being asked to run for VP by Cynthia McKinney The imperative of building the Green Party Attracting young people to the Green Party Where's radical labor? http://votetruth08.com - http://www.rosaclemente.com/index.htmlShot by Craig Seeman Patrick Dwyer Edited by Craig Seeman NY | |
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| Rosa Clemente, Green Party Vice Presidential Candiate Shared sacrifice with those who caused the economic crisis How her family has been effected by the subprime mortgage crisis Green Party strategy post Obamamania Green Party fighting election theft Defending non Greens on various issues Who's really progressive? http://votetruth08.com - http://www.rosaclemente.comShot by Craig Seeman Patrick Dwyer Edited by Craig Seeman | |
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| Rosa Clemente, Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate Which media is not really progressive HipHop activists co-opted A new way of thinking, what we believe in Katrina and the failure of the Democratic Party http://votetruth08.com - http://www.rosaclemente.comShot by Craig Seeman Patrick Dwyer Craig Seeman | |
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| Rosa Clemente, Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate Mass Civil Disobedience around the environment Using the Patriot act to prosecute protestors as domestic terrorists http://votetruth08.com - http://www.rosaclemente.comShot by Craig Seeman Patrick Dwyer | |
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| Rosa Clemente, Green Party Vice President on building the Green Party The Green Party can pull the fractured left together. The importance of local elections in building the party. http://www.rosaclemente.comRosa talks about a possible run for office in New York City. (Yes, she's really committed to building this party on the LOCAL level too!) Craig Seeman NY | |
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| (Thanks to James Landis for emailing these quotes and his thoughts on this.)
"This economy of ours is on a solid foundation." President Bush - Jan. 4 after meeting with the President's Working Group on Financial Markets.
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"There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue." - Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury. September 1929
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"I hope you're confident about our economy. I am." President Bush. Jan. 30, 2008 at the Robinson Helicopter Co. in Torrance, Calif.
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"While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States - that is, prosperity." - President Hoover - May 1, 1930
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"Losing a job is painful, and I know Americans are concerned about our economy; so am I. It's clear our economy has slowed, but the good news is, we anticipated this and took decisive action to bolster the economy, by passing a growth package that will put money into the hands of American workers and businesses." - President Bush - March 7, 2008 on news that the economy lost 63,000 payroll jobs in February.
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Truth is....... now, as then, they don't have a clue. The rich guys are taking care of the rich guys to the tune of 1.6 trillion dollars (thus far), and what trickles down to the rest of us cannot be mentioned in polite company.
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| This is published by permission from an acquaintance of mine who is LDS.Proposition 8 deeply troubles me and what Californian, Idahoan, and single adult Latter-day Saints are being asked to do about it deeply offends my religious beliefs as a Latter-day Saint. What I feel about gay marriage is a big part of that and a big part of my religious beliefs as a Mormon. SHORT VERSION: First, my baptismal covenants are, as stated in Mosiah 18, “to mourn with those that mourn, to comfort those that stand in need of comfort, and to stand as a witness of God in all times, and in all things, and in all places.” Prop 8 and the rhetoric surrounding it partially bothers me for that reason. I have a lot of friends who grew up LDS and are gay and their stories are TRAGIC. Horrible. It is disgusting how they have been treated, how they treated themselves when they were struggling with how their felt, and the people who treated them like that are not without blemish, despite them thinking they were just encouraging righteousness and protect the family by trying to “save” my gay friends from themselves. It’s reprehensible and I believe they will be held accountable. I think that since Mormons have covenanted to comfort those that stand in need of comfort that that should be our #1 goal. A lot of the rhetoric surrounding prop 8 communicates to my gay friends that they are fundamentally wrong, that they should repent, and that they’re not the same as we are, and ergo shouldn’t have the same rights that straight people have. Ugh. So I always knew I was an economic liberal, and I became a social liberal when I started realizing that equality and choice were important as a measly freshman at BYU. I started thinking about my political and religious beliefs, evaluated why I thought them, and when I got to gay marriage I couldn’t find any way around it. In order to all be created equally with the same unalienable rights and privileges (dec. of independence.) and that we’re even equal before God in terms of what the doctrine says, there was inequality when it came to sexual preference. I realized back then that there were tax breaks, health care rights, hospital visitation rights, property rights, etc. that are being denied to people just because of their sexual preference. Wrong. LDS doctrine is all about equality: “D&C 78:5-6 “That you may be equal in the bonds of heavenly things, yea, and earthly things also, for the obtaining of heavenly things. For if ye are not equal in earthly things ye cannot be equal in obtaining heavenly things;” and what my government says about equality in the constitution and declaration of independence means what’s happening is wrong. The arguments for prop 8 and against gay marriage in general are: ( Read more... ) | |
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