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I know we attended the wedding and we are going to welcome our new son-in-law into our family with open arms. I know we are going to continue to promote love and unity in our family.

I work to help prevent suicides in Utah, especially youth suicides. I know that when we marginalize any group in our society, we are sending a negative message to everyone, especially our vulnerable youth. We all have a basic need to be loved and to connect with other human beings. We will always have a healthier society if we all work to support each other.

The family is the most basic unit of society; anything that weakens the family weakens society. Strong families make a strong society. Strong families include all its members. It is one of the most important protective factors in suicide prevention. Strong families, congregations and societies include all of their members. Unfortunately, "Some exclude from their circle of fellowship those who are different" (Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Ensign Magazine, October 2007).

We are grateful to all who joined us in letting our son know he is loved and will be welcomed anytime he wants to join us in our church congregation. We are grateful to the many people who have expressed love and support for our family. I am most grateful for those who have realized that their religion is one of hope and teaches us to love each other saints and sinners alike.

All society wins when we cease-fire and put an end to cultural wars. We all win if we choose to value all people in our society. We all win if we seek to understand and respect each other's points of view and work to defend each others' rights, especially in housing and employment. (See Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Religious Freedom, Texas Regional Conference Sept. 10, 2016.)

Let's all start with our own families and neighborhoods. We don't need to agree to be kind. Kindness and strong families will help save lives.

Debra Oaks Coe, a Lehi Realtor, is an executive committee member of the Utah Commission on LGBT Suicide Awareness and Prevention.

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Op-ed: We all win when we end the culture wars - Salt Lake Tribune

BANGKOK After the prime minister became preoccupied with a teen luk thung singers sexuality and apparently dispatched police to cover her up and count her hip thrusts, Lumyai Hai Thongkam has become an icon of the national cultural wars.

Details of her signature gold bikini and even her stage name were being dissected, debated, defended and criticized online and off this week.

On a recent episode of the Hoan Krasae talk show, Lumyai, 18, and record label owner Prachakchai Navarat were asked if she wore anything else under her sparkly hot pants.

Read: Police Sent to Cover Up Teen Country Singer Lumyai

Theres a petticoat, stockings and underwear, so you wont see anything, Lumyai said, a rejoinder to Gen. Prayuth Chan-ochas comments that she was about to show all her genitals with her twerking.

Lumyai, who has been singing for nine years and performing as Lumyai for two, said her routine has brought her success, and shes now doing up to five concerts daily.

I found her when I heard her singing at a banquet. Her singing was on pitch and her dancing was good, said Prachakchai, who contends that Lumyais fame is mostly due her singing talent.

Her breakout song, Phu Sao Kha Lor, (Party Girl) was watched more than 244 million times since its November release, despite its low-production values.

Its not even a music video, just a low-budget song, Prachakchai said.

Her costume, he added, isnt outrageous and is consistent with other country singers.

Read: Prayuth Criticizes Teen Singers Sexy Dancing, Blames Farangs

This kind of dancing and clothes are very common in mor lam sing and coyote dancing. Their clothes are even smaller. We dont know where the line of morality lies after the phu yai started criticizing.

Former Khon Kaen Sen. Rabeabrat Phongpanich, a cultural conservative who heads the Society to Create Happy and Warm Families, earlier called Lumyai cultural trash. She called in to Hoan Krasae to say Lumyais stage name, Hai Thongkam (Golden Jug), was disgusting.

Theres no way she thought of it herself. She was given the name for fame and business purposes using sexI dont want to see her get taken advantage of, Rabeabrat said. Why isnt she named Lumyai Jaidee or Lumyai Jaingarm? she said, suggesting names that mean good-hearted.

The name will stand, Prachakchai told Rabeabrat.

While cultural crusaders make their points laying into the 18 year old, the internet mostly responded with a collective eyeroll at what netizens see as a cultural double-standard.

The Loke Maeng Dudjrit page compared the cultural double-standard between high-class ballet and low-class luk thung.

Current-event savvy webcomic Kai Meaw underscored the double-standard at work.

The story went through the wringer of millennial internet sensibilities that is Pim Thai Mai Dai, which plastered LUM YAI over the junta leaders face, referencing the singer and slang suggestive of lumkarn or annoying.

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How Wikipedia solved the knowledge problem Conservative Review I was in college when Wikipedia launched and I still remember the utter disdain with which academics regarded it at the time. The sense was, and still remains in some circles, that without certified and credentialed experts overseeing the process ...

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How Wikipedia solved the knowledge problem - Conservative Review

Rory McIlroy wont be playing this weekend at the U.S. Open. Hes headed home early after a missing the cut. Thats fine. Its tough even for the worlds best players to carve up a track like Erin Hills, especially when coming off an injury as McIlroy was this week in Wisconsin.

Thats no matter for Twitter, however! The takes must go on. Enter former professional golfer Steve Elkington, who once in a former life won the 1995 PGA Championship. Mostly since that time, hes been making bad tweets like this bigoted one about Michael Sam at the NFL Combine that got him disciplined by the PGA Tour.

Anyway, Elk tweeted an extremely Elk thing:

Rory is so bored playiing golf...without Tiger the threshold is prolly 4 majors with 100mill in bank

A quick aside on this: Rory has, again, played six times in 2017. Hes battled two minor but lingering injuries. Hes planned a wedding. Hes been in pretty decent form when playing. Theres nothing to indicate hes bored, etc, etc. Ive just spent 30 seconds responding to the substance of an Elk tweet while at the U.S. Open on a beautiful Saturday, and Im mad now.

Rory, responded, as he should:

In the annals of Twitter banter, tweeting a screenshot of your Wikipedia bio with your approximate earnings in the caption is fantastic 10 of 10, all around. Someone will pay lip service to this with words about how this isnt humble or some other sanctimonious garbage. Ignore them! This is fantastic! Imagine LeBron James responding to every Twitter idiot stumbling with DRAYMOND BETTER into his mentions with a simple Wikipedia screenshot. Its good. Sports needs more of this, golf in particular.

But we werent done. Elk (dumbly) got off the mat to respond!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand one more from Rory to finish him off:

That's why jack designed 100's of golf courses... and it's knew... mustn't have taught grammar in the 50's....

RIP Elk, whos been fired out of an airlock into space.

More than anyone in golf, Rory has to continually put up with this kind of terrible takery garbage from all over. Im here for the coming heel turn after he wins the PGA at Quail Hollow later this year.

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Rory McIlroy blows Steve Elkington's bad tweets into deep space with Wikipedia screenshot - SB Nation

By Morgan Roger | Jun 20, 2017 | Video

Reverend Al Sharpton Jr. is an American civil rights activist, minister, television and radio talk show host, and a former White House adviser. Sharpton developed his commanding speaking voice at a very young age, as he was a frequent churchgoer, eventually becoming an ordained ministry at just 10 years old. Before learning to read or write, Sharpton preached his first sermon at 4 years old. He then traveled and toured with famed gospel singer Mahalia Jackson to deliver sermons. His successful civil rights career soon followed as he became the Youth Director of New Yorks Operation Breadbasket, Director of Ministers for National Rainbow Push coalition, and founder of his own progressive civil rights organization, the National Action Network (NAN), one of the leading civil rights organizations in the world. Now, Rev. Al Sharpton hosts MSNBCs PoliticsNation and a nationally syndicated radio show.

In 2003, Sharpton ran as a Democratic presidential candidate. During a Rock the Vote debate, moderator Anderson Cooper asked, Which of you are ready to admit to having used marijuana in the past? Rev. Al Sharpton responded, I grew up in a church. We didnt believe in that. Sharpton made it very clear his relationship with marijuana, but now hes taking a different stance, Just because I dont use marijuana as a Minister, does not mean I have the right to impose my moral values on others. Although he doesnt personally consume marijuana, Sharpton is calling for more black representation in the white-dominated weed industry. He will be the keynote speaker at the Cannabis World Congress Business Exposition, marking the first time he will publicly speak about the decriminalization of marijuana and increasing diversity and better inclusion within the marijuana industry. Sharpton will also discuss the disproportionate number of marijuana arrests of black people, who are two to four times more likely to be arrested for marijuana than white people.

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Does Al Sharpton Smoke Weed? - Civilized