SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – A crowd at a popular Salt Lake City gay club is attacked by flaming projectiles.

Fernando Noriega explains to ABC 4 what happened early Thursday morning at Club JAM at 751 North 300 West. “So we had at least 30 to 40 people here,” said Noriega. “Everybody’s congregated to about here. All the tables were set up. It was very busy.”

Noriega says everyone was having a great time until something on fire came flying over the fence. “All the sudden we saw something bright,” said Noriega. “I thought they were fireworks on the floor.”

The crowd quickly realized that wasn’t the case when several more flaming projectiles went flying through the crowd.

Noriega said, “Out of a group of 30 people, all of those flares to be hitting at the same time we don’t know how, everyone was very lucky.”

While some people put out the flames Fernando and a couple of others jumped over the fence to find those responsible. Noriega said, “As soon as they saw us and we shouted at them they just went screeching down Beck Street.”

Fernando was able to get a good description of the three young men and the car they were driving, and he’s not the only one, a neighbor across the street saw the whole thing from his front porch.

Regan Mower said, “Then I saw two or three flare or firework looking things flying over the patio at JAM.”

Mower had the perfect vantage point and says he saw the three men behind the dumpster across the street, but even as the flames started flying he couldn’t believe his eyes.

“At first I just thought it was a practical joke,” said Mower. “Then I saw people screaming and running inside.”

Both Mower and Noriega say there’s no way you couldn’t have known the patio was packed.

Noriega said, “Even from here you can’t miss the fact there’s lots of people there. You can hear the people; see the people so you know there are people in there. It was definitely malicious. They definitely knew what they were doing.”

The suspects are described as white males in their late teens early 20s with blond, shaggy hair. They were driving a dark red or maroon Pontiac Grand Am. Anyone with information is asked to contact police.

Really Provo? (by SaveYourself777)

From ThinkProgress.org

“Someone recently hacked a construction sign in Provo, Utah to flash “God Hates Gays.” Provo is best known as the town where prominent Mormon college Brigham Young University is located. A YouTube video uploaded today captures the flashing message, alternating that phrase with “Follow Detour,” on a roadside after dark. According to a spokesperson from the Utah Department of Transportation, the sign was “a very bad prank that is obviously unacceptable.”

2012 pinkdot Utah (by pinkdotutah)

Wow. Have tissues in hand before watching this PSA for the Utah Pinkdot 2012.

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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s Republican Governor Gary Herbert on Friday vetoed a controversial measure which would have banned the state’s public schools from teaching contraception as a way of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

Gary Herbert

The measure, House Bill 363, would have also prohibited any instruction in regard to sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other instruction on human sexuality outside of promoting abstinence.

Had Herbert signed the bill into law, it would have been the first of its kind in the nation.

The bill had previously cleared Utah’s Republican-controlled House and Senate, and political observers noted that Herbert was widely expected to sign it.

In a statement released on Friday, the Governor said that “as a parent and grandparent” he considered proper sex education in public schools an important addition to the moral education students receive from their parents at home.

“If HB 363 were to become law, parents would no longer have the option the overwhelming majority is currently choosing for their children. I am unwilling to conclude that the state knows better than Utah’s parents as to what is best for their children,” he said.

“In order for parents to take on more responsibility, they need more information, more involvement, and more choice — not less. I cannot sign a bill that deprives parents of their choice,” Herbert added.

Gayle Ruzicka, president of Utah Eagle Forum, a conservative group that describes itself as “leading the pro-family movement,” told the Salt Lake Tribune that it was a “sad day for the children of Utah.”

“It never entered our minds that the governor, who told us he was conservative, would veto such an appropriate piece of legislation,” Ruzicka said.

“By vetoing this bill, he just sent the message that Utah’s stamp of approval [is] on teaching children how to have sex, teaching contraception and saying this is the safest way to have sex,” she said.