The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints & the Sierra Club?

Amazing - the rancor on both sides of the political spectrum in Utah over the recognition the LDS Church received from the Sierra Club for the environment friendly, green design of the plaza the Church is building in downtown Salt Lake.

Go there and read for yourselves - fanatics on both ends of the spectrum who rant and rage. (I just realized I'm a toddler at this ugly political division.)

http://deseretnews.com/user/comments/1,5150,700236376,00.html

As you can see, each has a modicum of truth that is swelled to a grotesque proportion.

Each hears only part of the conversation. Neither hears it fully.

Both rants on about their left-wing vs. right-wing hatred. No one will sit on a wrought-iron bench and hear birds chirr, warble or trill, while cool breezes rustle native species of grasses without fear that someone's cigarette butt will ignite the overly dry cheat grass that's not native to Utah.

May we someday meet there in the Plaza and talk about our differences? I'm the 6'6" (2 meters) tall fellow that used to have a beard. We'll sit under a tree that's not Russian Olive.

And this from someone who's been conservative since Goldwater (AuH2O) ran against Lyndon Baines Johnson, and who still has a couple of Goldwater/Miller bumper-stickers in his den...lying around here...somewhere...

Oh, look at the quail!