Posted by:
Roy G Biv
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Date: December 06, 2018 04:20PM
Utah and Church Co. at their very best......reserving the right to discriminate according to the will of god.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/utah-apos-hate-crime-law-170117242.htmlFrom the Article:
"Under Utah code, a case cannot be tried as a hate crime if the charge is more serious than a misdemeanor, rendering the legislation essentially useless, according to Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill."
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“The statute that we have is such an unworkable, unenforceable statute,” Gill told HuffPost on Tuesday. “It seems counterintuitive ... almost backward.”
“It’s not worth the paper it’s written on,” he added."
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“It really is an abdication of their moral, ethical and legal responsibility as elected officials,” Gill said. “It is a desire to not help these communities.”
"In early 2016, Utah state Sen. Steve Urquhart (R) sponsored a bill that would strengthen the state’s hate crime legislation. But the bill was “snuffed out” ― as he put it at the time ― by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which had released a statement encouraging lawmakers not to pass laws that would “upset the balance between religious liberty and LGBT rights.”