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The Hatch Foundation sadly announces the passing of Senator Orrin G. Hatch—the former President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate and the longest-serving Senator in Utah history (1977-2019).

OUTRAGE Saturday, 9/4: Senator Orrin Hatch PRAISED a Salt Lake Tribune columnist named Paul Rolly who says Conservatives are "demonizing Muslims" for questioning the Ground-Zero Mosque. Senator Hatch claims he is on the side of defending the Constitution. Instead, he has chosen to demonize sincere Americans questioning the motives and sensitivies of those behind the Ground-Zero Mosque. http://www.facebook.com/OrrinHatch Orrin Hatch should issue a retraction, immediately. He should then issue a statement in support of Utahns and other Americans (and 70% of New Yorkers) who would prefer the mosque be moved and who demand more information about funding of the mosque....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 29, 2003 Source: Constitution Party National Committee Constitution Party: Foreign Born Should Not Serve As President LANCASTER, PA: Condemning the recent move by Senator Orrin Hatch to permit foreigners who have been naturalized to serve as President of the United States, the nation's third largest political party urged the United States Congress to reject the proposal. "Sen. Hatch's proposal may be well intentioned but it also a betrayal of the very principles and ideals that our Founding Fathers had when they created this nation," said James N. Clymer, chairman of the Constitution Party National Committee. "Such...