A particular religious group controls politics in Utah because they believe that the law of the land should be dictated by their faith. That’s a theocracy. It’s also tyranny of the majority. Both can be true.
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“They believe the law of the land should be dictated by their faith” was generally not my experience. Abortion laws are stricter in (e.g.), IN or TX. Currently, public education & trans rights is worse in OK, WY, etc. UT’s liquor laws are odd, but so is PA, MA, etc. www.hrc.org/resources/st...
jun 19, 2025, 2:57 am • 0 0 • view
None of this to say that is a bastion of liberal thought (ha!), or to say the church doesn’t influence the culture there, but the political environment is driven more by the Republican Party’s super majority than anything else.
jun 19, 2025, 3:03 am • 0 0 • view