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Judiciary: Two February appointments broke a 74-year tradition of having at least one non-Mormon justice. Critics cite bias. June 11, 2000 |PAUL FOY | ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY — When Utah's Supreme Court upheld prayers at government meetings as a legacy of Utah's Mormon heritage, four of the five justices were Mormons...The latest appointments by Gov. Mike Leavitt underscore the dominance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah affairs. "Anybody who lives here knows where all the power is," says Matt Gilmore, 90, a lawyer who for many years was general counsel to the Utah Tax Commission. "You got a Supreme Court that's all Mormon, a Legislature that's practically all Mormon, an executive department headed up by a Mormon and a Republican Party that's all Mormon." That may not be surprising for a state founded by a church theocracy and still 70% Mormon. But Leavitt's two February appointments broke a tradition that dates from 1926 of having at least one non-Mormon on the high bench...Now, from local to federal courts in Utah, members of one faith overwhelmingly rule the bench.

All-Mormon Supreme Court Spells Theocracy to Disgruntled Utahans [GF]

But GF, there's no religious bigotry in Utah, doncha know?

Otherwise, the self-appointed Mormon bigot patrol that acts as FR sentries would have told us lonnggggggg ago!

For all you whiners.

I am not Mormon. I think that Mormon theology is contradictory and irrational.

But I know and work with lots of Mormons. As a rule, they are good citizens, neighbors, family people and they are a moral people.

Give me them for neighbors rather than bigots, and secularists and the ignorant in our country who do not know that “Progressive” is just newspeak for leftover Marxism and/or people who don’t even know what that is.

I am beginning to understand why people dislike Freepers. This thread is an embarrassment to human intelligence.