Why Being a Jazz Fan Can Really Suck

Basically it's the same reason being from Utah can suck in general. Because you're from a state that does stuff like this. I'm fine with the bizarre belief system of mainstream mormons, a weird, but generally extremely nice lot. The marriage of religion to hateful politics, however, deeply offends and worries me. Not to say that this is necessarily the work of Mormons, it very well could not be. But the overwhelming shadow the LDS church casts over all aspects of life in Utah and the insane political fanatics that grow in that shadow -- nay thrive, like so many fungi under a log -- makes the church, if not responsible, at least culpable of engendering an environment where this kind of stuff is possible. This seems a lot more sinister than the kind of really stupid, but innocuous stuff Utah normally does; like introducing legislation that bans the IB program as a UN plot. I don't know. Maybe it's a mountain time zone (or four corner states) thing. They seem to hate gays and Mexicans in Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and elsewhere. But nowhere else does it seem such a part of the mainstream (many of these states, like Wyoming, basically reject the notion of 'mainstream' all together, prefering to live on societies fringes, whereas Utah has one of the most centrally organized societies in the US). Nowhere else does it seem so acceptable, even tacitly endorsed by the broad mainstream (not just parts of it facing election).

Oh well, at least the Jazz didn't draft or trade for any gay Mexicans... that we know of. I would demand a test to prove that Al Jefferson and Gordan Hayward aren't Mexican spies trying to enact the radical San Francisco, Pelosi agenda. But knowing my fellow Utahns, such a test has a chance of implementation, and I want to keep my name clear so as to increase the odds of pulling off my own diabolical socialist plot: signing Dwight Howard.