Town Hall Meeting With Karen Hyer, Democrat for 3rd Congressional District

Come to a Townhall Meeting with KAREN HYER
Democratic Candidate for Utah’s 3RD District
Thursday, August 26th, 7 p.m., Orem City Council Chambers, 56 N. State
Ethics in Government: Breaking the Cycle of Professional Politicians, Interest Money and Corruption
You can trace almost every problem in Washington to incompetence or “corruption.” Instead of looking at everything through partisan or ideological lenses, we need to start looking at things through ethical lenses. Special interests and/or poor decisions take over when fame, fortune, power, or ambition are more important than honestly serving the people. If we really want to see change for the better in Washington, we need to quit electing professional politicians (in either party) and go back to the idea of a citizen legislature in the spirit of Cincinnatus.

Karen isn’t a professional politician worried about her next election; she’s an American first with real-life experience! Her core values are conservative, but ethics, competence and intellectual honesty are more important to her than party. She’ll think outside the box, work with others, and find solutions to our most critical problems!

Some of Karen’s Experience

· Operated her own businesses; consulted nationally for the SBA & Chambers of Commerce
· Taught Ethics at BYU. Has taught school at all levels, elementary - post-graduate
· Owned & Managed a hunting and cattle ranching operation, where they also produced cotton, feed and crops
· Spent years as a top researcher at a pre-eminent medical center; has taught and advised on health policy
· Got a law degree & led the cause for small farmers & the environment, against the feds & special interests
· Has helped empower millions of the disadvantaged through educational programs both home and abroad
KAREN WILL . . .
* HELP GROW OUR ECONOMY
* ENSURE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY
* BRING ETHICS TO GOVERNMENT

Mitt Romney's Religious Tolerance flip-flop

Mitt Romney, 2007:

“Religious tolerance would be a shallow principle indeed if it were reserved only for faiths with which we agree.”

Mitt Romney, 2010:

“Governor Romney opposes the construction of the mosque at Ground Zero. The wishes of the families of the deceased and the potential for extremists to use the mosque for global recruiting and propaganda compel rejection of this site."

More on the Lower Manhattan Islamic Center

First, from Keith Olbermann:

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It is a Muslim house of worship. Masjid-Manhattan. It lost its lease in a larger building down the street, two years ago. The new facility is so small that only about 20 percent of worshipers can use it, at a time. But "Masjid-Manhattan" opened in early 1970. Four blocks away, the World Trade Center opened, in December 1970.
The actual place that is the real-life equivalent of the paranoid dream contained in the phrase "Ground Zero Mosque," has been up and running, since before there was a World Trade Center, and for nine years since there has been a World Trade Center.
Running, without controversy, without incident, without terrorism, without protest. Because this is America, dammit.
And in America, when somebody comes for your neighbor, or his bible, or his torah, or his Atheists' Manifesto, or his Koran, you and I do what our fathers did, and our grandmothers did, and our founders did you and speak up.

And, just in case you missed it, my last post was quoted on the City Weekly's blog.

-Bob

Islamic Community Center and Harry Reid's Mormonism

So, I found it interesting that Harry Reid came out against the Islamic Cultural Center in lower Manhattan.

Not surprising that he bowed down to his Republican challenger. He seems to run whenever an elephant says boo, but that's a different story, for a different time.

What's at issue here is the First Amendment. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." I love how we let politicians say "I respect the constitution, except when I disagree with letting others have the same rights as I do."

The Mormon Church (which our membership in is about the only thing it seems Sen Reid and I have in common) has had trouble for years building temples. Sometimes it's simply over things like building height. However, many times it's because people don't want The Mormons to be building a Temple there.

In 1842, Joseph Smith Jr, founder of the Church, wrote a letter to John Wentworth,which contained 13 fundamental doctrines of Mormonism. These were later cannonized as the "Articles of Faith." The 11th one reads (emphasis mine):

We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.

So, as an American who loves the Constitution and as a Mormon, I believe that the Islamic Community Center should be allowedto be built, evenif it is two blocks away from Ground Zero.