I saw on CNN yesterday a brief mention of protests in downtown Salt Lake City, but I can't seem to find any mention of them in the Utah press. In fact, I've noticed that almost all the opinions quoted in the Utah press are pro-war, or sort of weakly nervous about the war. Is Utah even acknowledging the existence of protesters? The headlines all read things like "Utah delegation back Bush," and so on. The guy-on-the-street interviews sound like they could have been conducted in a Mormon church parking lot. Even the non-editorial (i.e. "factual") articles have language like "Though their views on the war differ, Utahns are united through their prayers. All are praying for a speedy end..." (that was a paraphrase of something from KSL). No, all Utahns are not "united by their prayers." I'm sick of reading shit (though some of it is well-intentioned shit) about how Republicans and Democrats go to the same churches and blah blah blah. The whole point in Utah is that partisan lines are virtually equivalent to religious lines. Fuckers.