Comments on: Audio Clips of Senator Chris Buttars “Black Baby” Controversy

By: Lu Prickett

Lu Prickett — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:59:21 +0000

Butters is an ignorant bigot. Plain and simple. But please realize that HE IS NOT UTAH.

Stop assuming he speaks for the rest of us.

By: j

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:21:19 +0000

Why did utah elect this closet racist ultra christian conservative bigot!? i feel shame for this man he doesnt speak for me nor should he speak for Utahns he is an embarrassment!

By: Michael Liebmann

Michael Liebmann — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:44:36 +0000

Chris Buttars is a perfect example of a bigot whose time has more than come.

By: Angela Wolfe

Angela Wolfe — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:13:24 +0000

Chris Buttars is an unmitigated jackass.

By: Tbone

Tbone — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:45:37 +0000

Mr. Butters has made his religious beliefs VERY well known (frequently). My parents are LDS… My siblings (all of them are LDS).. and I was raised LDS (35+years). Make no mistake, the number of racist comments I heard from the bretheren while attending could not be tallied on one 8″ by 11.5″ sheet of paper. Don’t tell me racism isn’t institutional in the LDS faith. You can’t refute my personal experience. I was around in 1978 when the “blacks” had the curse of caine lifted. I was around when the Book of Mormon was changed to remove “black curse” references. I have read the “Journal of Discourses”. You can deny the history of the LDS church, but you can NOT erase the facts!

I hope the youth of the LDS church are wiser, kinder, and more decent. I hope the church leadership eventually acknowledges its errors and stupidity. I just see them evolving slowly out of pressure from decent human beings. I don’t see them enlightened by the wisdom of a kind and loving God.

H_H

By: Roger Carrier

Roger Carrier — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:10:04 +0000

To Sarah, I agree with you about modern Mormons, but a good number of those in Senator Butters generation (mine) are infected with the virus of racism. I remember writing a controversial article in college. What was so controversial about it? It called for an end to discrimination in buying and selling houses. In other words, people like Chris Butters believed that as a seller, you had the right to refuse to sell to a black family. Also, you should look at who was and was NOT on the reviewing stand when Martin Luther King gave his famous I have a dream speech. I wonder who many Mormon leaders were on that reviewing stand? Most of them believed he was a communist or subversive.

By: Roger Carrier

Roger Carrier — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:01:51 +0000

Chris Butter was just echoing what I heard sometimes in my youth by teachers in Utah classrooms. People have forgotten how bad it was. The Utah Republican Party should take a stand and call for Senator Butters to resign. I’m 62, and I’m always disgusted with people who try to keep alive the worst aspects of the America of their youth.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:59:18 +0000

A white ugly mormon thing?
He just stated, aloud, what many LDS folks are thinking (and saying) in private?
I’ll be the first one to stand up and say what a horrible comment that Buttars made. I was absolutely horrified by it. But tell me how what he said reflects on Mormons or LDS folks. I am one of the people you like to call a LDS folk, and a white ugly mormon. And I believe he should resign immediately. Being Mormon does not make me a racist.

By: Julian Garcia

Julian Garcia — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:12:28 +0000

This old man is a racist, a white ugly mormon thing!

I’m sorry, It was wrong. I don’t mean to offend anyone. I can see how some people think it could be taken that way. I didn’t mean it that way. I apologize to anyone who took offense…I ask for your forgiveness.

By: ak

ak — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:02:18 +0000

It should be obvious that Buttars is a racist now (if not earlier). I find it unbelievable that people still defend him. Utahns should be ashamed for their ignorance. Using the adjective “black” with baby is NOT the same thing as saying a black day or dark night. When you use that adjective to modify a human with the intent to be negative (he was trying find a term that was more negative than an ugly baby) it is racist. For most normal people (outside of utah?) just using the term ugly “black baby” in a negative fashion would be uncomfortable. For Buttars it just seems to slide of his lips with no problem.

By: Tbone

Tbone — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:46:45 +0000

Of course he is a racist! WTF?? He just stated, aloud, what many LDS folks are thinking (and saying) in private. Darned Cain! How dare he not exist and curse the black race. Oh wait.. was that Ham?? Who knows? The dogma changes with the wind in Mormonism… Bigotry is bigotry. Be it about gays, blacks, mexicans, or anyone else (says me the “athiest”).

H_H

By: Jay Wallace

Jay Wallace — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:18:48 +0000

I think that Chris Butters & Fred Phelps are the same dude. Think about it!

By: Aaron Orgill

Aaron Orgill — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:39:53 +0000

Well, this is the same guy who said Brown vs. Board of Education was a wrong decision, so in my opinion, probably yes to racist too. Even if he’s not totally conscious of it.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:06:46 +0000

Racist?? Probably no.

Doofus? Probably yes.

By: Loralee

Loralee — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:10:06 +0000

He just gets more and more delightful, no?