WOW. SWEET.

Buttars Gets Owned

By Randy Harward, 3-03-06

Have you seen the video? [Use caution when clicking that link. Not for the faint of heart.] The one where a kid, riding in the backseat of a car, opens his door to hit another kid on his bike? He falls out of the car and, on the way down, smashes his face into the bumper of a parked car? You haven’t? Well, it’s brutal. And as I surfed for information on the aftermath of the accident, I discovered there’s a word for that kind of brutality.

When someone gets so thoroughly jacked up, one can say “He got owned.” [Note: the emphasis is essential. See also Burrrrrn! and Face!.]

This week, Rep. Chris Buttars’ (R-West Jordan) “origins of life” bill—which would have forced teachers to read an anti-evolution statement before teaching evolution—got owned. It was his Plan B after failing in his fight to teach intelligent design in our public schools. And enough of his fellow Mormon Republicans objected to the bill that it was soundly defeated in the House by a score of 46-28.

Mormon Rep. Steve Urqhart, R-St. George, said he voted against it because he didn’t understand how science contradicted faith. Rep. Scott Wyatt, R-Logan, said if they passed Buttars’ bill, the state would then have to likewise address hundreds of other scientific theories--"from quantum physics to Freud." Other LDS reps smacked it down because it clashed with traditional Mormon beliefs.

Wow. Sweet.

Not only that, but another Chris Buttars joint, a greasy bill that would have given schools the right to limit and regulate clubs that promote bigotry or involve human sexuality (smooth, eh?), didn’t even make it to the floor. No debate; it just died.

Buttars couldn’t get one crazy-bordering-on-psycho bill-scheme to pass, or another heard, among a group of people that brought us such classics as Amendment 3 and those craaaaazy liquor laws. His face just hit the bumper. Hard.

He got owned.. Too bad there’s not a viral video to pass around. (Although there is a pic of him hanging his head here.)

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