Utah Heads Boldly Into the Past
Lawmakers seek to write a history that never was
Peter Greene reports:
Utah is looking at HB 312 which seeks to “modify” school curriculum and standards. Having already interjected a version of the Ten Commandments into classrooms, legislators are seeing if they can’t push some more religion in there, along with a hefty dose of right-wing politics and actual Mormonism. Coverage of bill has focused on the Christian nationalism aspect, but there are few other things going on in the bill that promise to lead Utah boldly into the past.
The bill specifically references the Bible, and also allows for the Book of Mormon to be taught on equal footing as a founding document - at least founding as it relates to Utah.
Theocracy, here we come.