'There’s apparently something about the combination of the LDS religion and Republican politics that results in ignorance and viciousness, perhaps because church and state are inextricably intertwined in Utah,' Ken Roach writes.
Onlookers fill the gallery of the House Chamber as the Utah Legislature voted to override Gov. Spencer Cox’s veto of HB11, which bars transgender girls from participating in school sports matching their gender identities, in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 25, 2022.I was a naïve 17-year-old California boy when I first met a Latter-Day Saint. I was surprised at first; I thought that all of the Mormons had died in Donner Pass.
As constant reminders of who wields power, I see LDS churches and LDS temples everywhere I turn, and I’m bombarded daily with news and gossip about the LDS Church. The LDS folks I know seem to own more guns than Bibles, as if semiautomatic weapons are a sign that one worships the Prince of Peace. Utah consistently ranks as one of the worst in the nation for women. We were one of the last states to criminalize marital rape. Now we have limited the right of Utah women to access reproductive health care. Research indicates that we’ll see a range of negative consequences, including “back-alley” abortions and higher rates of maternal mortality, infant mortality, childhood poverty and adolescent suicide.
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