Kanab City Council's Natural Family Resolution is Right On

Ted Hallisey's job is to turn tourists on to Kane County, but Kanab's endorsement of a "natural-family resolution" is turning some visitors off. "Recently read about your vote to censure anyone other than . . . heterosexual, childbearing couples. Even though I fit that bill, I am so disturbed by your actions that I am rescheduling my travel plans to avoid Kanab completely," reads one e-mail sent to the city. "Y'all are silly," reads another e-mail, obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune through the Government Records Access and Management Act. And a northern Utah woman vows to stop visiting Kanab because the resolution supports "prejudice, discrimination and subtle social cruelties." Such responses from potential hotel-staying, souvenir-buying, restaurant-dining visitors worry Hallisey, executive director of the Kane County Office of Tourism and Film Commission.

I see your liberal quote and raise you this one:

"It is ironic how easily economically and educationally privileged people can disguise smug, judgmental elitism as progressive liberalism--and then accuse the 'unintelligent' masses of being closed-minded. Now THAT is irony in a democracy."

Thanks for the suggestion on the road blocks, but the officers there are quite busy with the drug traffickers that see Hwy 89 as the perfect drug corridor. They'll be too busy for meaningless morality checks. That's absolutely not what I'm suggesting and anyone can see that you're setting up a straw man here just to pick a fight.

Not that you'll care, but why is it that whenever someone says "Hey, you know, the world isn't working so good and I think it's because people are losing the types of values that used to contribute to stable societies." that the next conclusion made by liberals is that we want to start slapping chastity belts on everyone who passes through town and sending them around with "minders" to make sure they don't talk to the women-folk?

It's because conservatives of all stripes have been and are being deliberately vilified and marginalized (through the power of the media) because nobody likes to consider that maybe they're right and liberals might be wrong. It's not convenient for liberals to consider that the Right is, well, right because it would mean that people would have to actually look into their soul and wonder if the pursuit of happiness is the same as the pursuit of pleasure. Not exactly the path of least resistance they're looking for.

But if you were actually from Kanab, or spent more time there than just gassing up and leaving, you'd know that we know that Colorado City is NOT what anyone wants our town to become. However, they don't want it to be Boulder, Colorado either. Somewhere in the middle (which is what it currently is), but with a few more improvements is just fine.

I believe that the city council was simply making an attempt to make a statement about what's important to the _local_ majority in the town. Maybe they're wrong and the _local_ majority will vote them out...but in a free republic, that's for the _local_ majority to decide.

You want quotes? I got quotes.

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports." -- George Washington

"No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities from which the event has resulted can not be compared with the means by which most governments have been established without some return of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage...it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States...and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge." -- George Washington

"We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training." -- Author Unknown

"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." -- GK Chesterton

"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?" --Thomas Jefferson

"The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them." -- Thomas Jefferson, Aug. 18, 1821

"Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men." -- David Ogilivy

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