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You got that right and I don't think they will mind spending a bit of it to grind the ACLU under their heel. Whoever thought this little boondoggle would go over will be regretting the day they got this bright idea. The sight is a memorial and education center for the LDS who pushed the hand carts from the Midwest to Utah. Look at a map that's a long way from Missouri to walk. 966 acres give it to them. This sight is just as meaningful to the LDS as a Native American burial grounds are to them. I doubt that there is anything there that can't be found in the next thousand acres. This is just the ACLU and 4 Wyoming citizens with chips on their shoulders.

The LDS church . . . would take the ACLU to town in my opinion

The ACLU certainly hasn't picked patsy to bully, that's for sure.

There are some first-rate legal scholars in the LDS Church. Its ruling body, the Council of the Twelve, includes Dallin Oaks who was a fixture at the University of Chicago as one of the country's leading trusts and estates professors before serving as president of BYU and on the Utah Supreme Court.

One of Oaks' University of Chicago fellow alumni, Rex Lee, was Reagan's Solicitor General and argued more cases (and won more cases) before the Supeme Court than any other solicitor general in the history of the United States.

Oaks and Lee were instrumental in establishing BYU's law school (the J. Reuben Clark Law School, named for Coolidge's LDS undersecretary of state and author of the Clark Memorandum, a one of the most important and influential documents in US diplomatic history). Because of the exceptional quality of teaching there, and the high quality of its students, BYU's law school has vaulted into the upper tier of national law schools in less than 30 years. Almost every year a graduate of BYU's law school is selected by Scalia, Thomas, or Rehnquist to clerk on the Supreme Court.

As a result, the LDS Church has assembled a stable of superb legal thoroughbreds to fight for the traditional values that made this nation great.