Ever read Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer? My former editor at SN&R, Tom Walsh, lent it to me a while back, and I later bought it and read it again. It’s a combination of some amazing history of the American West I’d never bothered to get into before, long-form investigative journalism about the Mormon Church and its fundamentalist offshoots that just blew my mind, and fascinating insights into the various problems with religious extremism and fundamentalism generally. Check it out if you’re in the market for some nonfiction.
Also, I hope you all are subscribing to e-mail blasts from Equality California, the Human Rights Campaign, Courage Campaign, Equality Action Now, and whatever other fabulous organizations people are getting into. Through their e-mails this week, I learned about a pretty messed-up ad in The New York Times, Jon Stewart’s recent Prop. 8 conversation with Mike Huckabee, and this idiot article from Pat Boone, which compares anti-Prop. 8 protesters to the terrorists who attacked Mumbai. Yeah. Really. Anyway, visit their Web sites. Sign their e-mail lists. Take advantage of the tools they’re providing to help you be involved in the fight to overturn Prop. 8.
