Tribune columnist Gordon Monson warns against religious overreach from Utah lawmakers and Utahns themselves.
When overzealous lawmakers and religious loyalists try to remake laws in the name of God, bad things can happen.
Sadly, that’s the history of humankind, a history filled with too much prejudice and discrimination and violence and hatred. It starts with fear and ignorance and transforms into scorning those who are different at some level, in some way, and slides downward from there. In a country founded on distinct religious freedoms, including the complete absence of religion, this gets problematic. That’s why when a lawmaker in another state asserts, as, that his state is a “Christian” state, one that wants to rid itself of LGBTQ “filth,” all Americans, including Utahns, should be horrified. Whenbecomes a political force, it crosses a line that intrudes on the rights of those who are not Christian. That much should be clear to Christians themselves.
Latter-day Saints should know all about the adverse effects of such happenings, given the early history of their religious group being pushed from place to place under the cruelest of circumstances, to the point that they hitched up the wagons, pulled the handcarts, riding and walking to a safe place in the mountains.
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