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History in Motion: The Living Legacy of This Is The Place Heritage Park
What makes This Is The Place so special? It represents the pioneers, their struggles, diversity, and the quest for freedom.
What makes This Is The Place so special? It represents the pioneers, their struggles, diversity, and the quest for freedom.
Latter-day Saints can help create a safe haven for refugees. Their extensive support system can help create successful integrations.
Can education improve relationships? Utah’s programs prove teaching relationship skills can enhance lives.
How does Utah support strong marriages? Utah Marriage Commission provides innovative, accessible marriage education.
Can federal dollars boost family stability? Utah’s approach combines resources to strengthen marital bonds.
New Utah legislation follows best practices for child safety, merging legal protection with moral duty.
Netflix’s Money Shot: The PornHub Story delves into the world’s most popular porn site. But is it truly a balanced view, or does it ignore the voices of those most harmed by pornography?
The problem with HB 11 was not its failure to reach compromise on the question of transgender athletic participation, but limiting its scope to a single question, where only one set of competing interests could be served in the end.
Coverage of Utah HB 11, regarding transgender students in high school sports, has generated more outrage than illumination. We wanted to find out if there was more to the story.
I sit with several of my Public Square friends to discuss their recent articles discussing accuracies, and inaccuracies, of common assumptions about Utah.
In parallel to the “uniquely drawn to pornography” story is the “uniquely drawn to plastic surgery” tale about Utah. Once again, the preponderance of the available evidence – especially when carefully reviewed – isn’t so convenient and favorable to this increasingly popular narrative.
Some still like to claim that Utah has a uniquely high rate of porn use in the nation—purportedly related to cultural norms that “suppress” and “shame” sexual expression. This popular story only survives out of widespread ignorance over the science of pornography itself.