The article says:
...the 104-member, part-time Legislature, whose members are around 80 percent faithful members of the Mormon Church...
So the legislature is roughly 23 percent more Mormon than Utah is.
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You misunderstand a lot about state and local politics.
First, Salt Lake City is only about 40% LDS while the County is about 50% LDS. All the other counties in UTAH are about 75% LDS, some more and some less. When you have elections the majority of voters get to decide who represents them. In the vast majority of the state there is a majority of Mormons and they typically vote for people like themselves who happen to be Mormons. In the City of Salt Lake that is also the case but the majority is not Mormon in the city and the city makes up a large part of the state population. If not for the City and their below 50% Mormon population the state legislator would be 100% Mormon.
Like I said, in Rome, Italy the city council is 100% Roman Catholic, in Italy the Parliament is nearly always 100% Roman Catholic. While some of the Communists in Italy are really Atheist they call themselves Catholic so they can get elected.
I don't see the problem with Utah and their Mormon majority. I don't see a problem with the State Legislator of Georgia not having any Mormons on it or Kentucky, New York or many other states. People like to be represented by people like themselves. It sounds like someone doesn't like Mormons and wants to take away their opportunity to represent themselves in their own state.
Well...
Back in the Good Old Days...
To Whom It May Concern:
Press dispatches having been sent for political purposes, from Salt Lake City, which have been widely published, to the effect that the Utah Commission, in their recent report to the Secretary of the Interior, allege that plural marriages are still being solemnized and that forty or more such marriages have been contracted in Utah since last June or during the past year, also that in public discourses the leaders of the Church have taught, encouraged and urged the continuance of the practice of polygamy
I, therefore, as President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, do hereby, in the most solemn manner, declare that these charges are false. We are not teaching polygamy or plural marriage, nor permitting any person to enter into its practice, and I deny that either forty or any other number of plural marriages have during that period been solemnized in our Temples or in any other place in the Territory.
One case has been reported, in which the parties allege that the marriage was performed in the Endowment House, in Salt Lake City, in the Spring of 1889, but I have not been able to learn who performed the ceremony; whatever was done in this matter was without my knowledge. In consequence of this alleged occurrence the Endowment House was, by my instructions, taken down without delay.
Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriages, which laws have been pronounced constitutional by the court of last resort, I hereby declare my intention to submit to those laws, and to use my influence with the members of the Church over which I preside to have them do likewise.
There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed to inculcate or encourage polygamy; and when any Elder of the Church has used language which appeared to convey any such teaching, he has been promptly reproved. And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.
WILFORD WOODRUFF
President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
President Lorenzo Snow offered the following:
I move that, recognizing Wilford Woodruff as the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the only man on the earth at the present time who holds the keys of the sealing ordinances, we consider him fully authorized by virtue of his position to issue the Manifesto which has been read in our hearing, and which is dated September 24th, 1890, and that as a Church in General Conference assembled, we accept his declaration concerning plural marriages as authoritative and binding.
The vote to sustain the foregoing motion was unanimous.
Salt Lake City, Utah, October 6, 1890.
Hebrews 11:35-40
35. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection. 36. Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. 37. They were stoned ; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated-- 38. the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground. |
~ Wilford Woodruff, 4th LDS President
Lds are only 2.7 percent of the entire US population...
Not much left to go around (even above 1 percent of a given state's population) after you consider that...
If Utah is fifty seven percent Mormon...
And Nevada & AZ 8 percent Mormon...
And Idaho & Wyoming higher than that...
With Colorado getting a few percentage pts too
Along with a few other Western states...