Michael Aaron: A sense of humor about ourselves
While not the biggest issue of the day, one story I had to write this month, I think, is a symptom of much of what ails society today. I think it is a...
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Michael Aaron
Gov. Herbert’s apology to Utah’s LGBT community
Late Spring of 1982. I was living in the University of Utah’s Ballif Hall dorm and had found a very cute fellow Ute I wanted to “get to know...
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Did you ever think…
There’s been a lot of “I never though in my lifetime I’d see…” talk going around the past year. With Jackie Biskupski’s election as mayor of Salt Lake...
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Response to “Help Your Children Choose Heterosexuality” published by LDS magazine
I tried to respond paragraph-by-paragraph to the drivel written by JeaNette Goates Smith and published by Meridian Magazine on their website, but frankly I...
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Reality has hit. Happy birthday to me.
Reality has hit me, and I’m out of work mode this Saturday night. OH MY HELL, in my lifetime the highest court of the land has said that same-sex...
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Dylann Roof may actually help mend our wars
One of the stated goals of Dylann Roof’s massacre of those at a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South...
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A billion shades
On the first day I took a breath in this world and shrieked my first scream, I was black or white or one of a billion shades in-between; I was male or...
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Family and ‘family’
I love the holidays, because it is a time I can spend with my biological family. My mother for my entire life has made Christmas and Thanksgiving a...
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Civility 2
A few issues ago I saw the writing on the wall, as most did, that marriage equality was coming our way and I called for “balance and respect” in our...
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A toast to a personal hero
Before the night is out on this momentous day, I want to call out a congrats and a thank you to Mark Lawrence, who many months ago dove in where no one else...
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