"Patriots for a Moral Utah" is a hoax

[Hepburn]

To all those who've been tricked this time around: the "patriots for a moral utah" is a hoax. There is no petition to force gays to move out of Utah. It is a hoax. Repeat, a hoax. Not a very funny one, but it's either designed to just make Utah look bad or to mirror the 19th century legislation from Missouri that made it legal to exterminate Mormons to get them out of their state.

http://jerpsguy.blogspot.com/2010/03/patriots-for-moral-utah-is-hoax.html

I have not been able to verify the "Patriots" story ~~ I think this blogger has it right. It's a hoax.

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. It's in the news

LBN. If someone is sure it's a hoax, we need verification a little more robust than some random person's blog.

[Initech]

2. After those Repent Amarillo douchebags yesterday it wouldn't surprise me at all if they were real.

[HeresyLives]

6. Or the crowd that wants to stone the whale to death.

Harder and harder to tell hoaxes from legit news anymore.

[Fumesucker]

3. Poe's Law

http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe's_Law

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing.

[Newsjock]

4. The "group's" Facebook page contains links to Landover Baptist and Betty Bowers

Hoax.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Patriots-for-a-Moral-Utah/379830202253

[panzerfaust]

8. Landover Baptist: That's MY Church! PTL!!

They often know what God is going to say before God even says it.

[Hepburn]

9. Yep....

...seems like a hoax!

[brooklynite]

5. But it HAS to be true!

Because they're on the internet; and EVERYTHING on the Internet is true. They even have a FREE EMAIL account!

[panzerfaust]

7. So are the Compassionate Conservatives

[Lyric]

10. I really don't think there's anything a hoaxer could do

to make Utah look worse than it already does.