Monday, May 5

Sex, Lies and Column Inches - For an East Coast homo, I have a lot of contacts with Utah, it seems, so I've been intrigued by the press scandal coming out of Salt Lake. You remember Elizabeth Smart, the lost-and-found Mormon child that sent the 24-hour news channels into an Amber Alert frenzy? Well, the National Enquirer printed some pretty salacious things about Liz's dad, and apparently they didn't make them up. No, law enforcement officers were the one's who fabricated the stories of incestuous homosexuality. According to a Smart family lawyer, they then forwarded them to reporters for the Salt Lake Tribune, who subsequently sold the info to the Enquirer for the tabloid story titled: "Utah cops: Secret Diary Exposes Family Sex Ring." Talk about your tangled webs.