Defending Traditional Marriage
The following article is a submission from Representative Brian Greene. Given the history of the early LDS Church with respect to discriminatory laws and practices, and in particular with the practice of polygamy, the modern-day...
A Sound Economy Starts with the Individual
In the wake of the President’s most recent State of the Union address that promoted several new federal programs, a few Utah citizens have responded with the creation of Financial Ready Utah—a non-profit organization headed by...
Utah Policy Gets it Wrong on Rights
In an article posted yesterday on the Utah Policy website, Bob Bernick argued against the alleged “obsession” of “GOP Utah legislators when it comes to gun rights.” Bernick proceeded to highlight a...
Honoring an Act of Justified Defiance
In the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order allowing military commanders to legally kidnap innocent individuals to be placed into internment camps. The reason they...
Group Injunction? Constitutionality by Necessity
One of the most basic axioms in our Constitutional Republic is the natural right of association. The Declaration of Independence speaks directly to this individual right in justifying separation from Great Britain. The grievances...
The Cyclical Interventions of the Nanny State
Conservatives throughout Utah have for years been strenuously objecting to federal bailouts of mismanaged and failing institutions. Their arguments, which themselves are logically sound, are predicated on the principle that when...