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Article: Theocracy in America.(influence of Mormon Church on society in Utah)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- April 1, 2001
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What Gentile life in Mormon Utah can teach us about church and state
IF THE GOVERNMENT HAD BEEN AS effective in eradicating religion from public life as George W. Bush likes to insist it has, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) would not have been able to turn public park benches into church pews. But that's pretty much what happened in 1998, when LDS leaders secretly persuaded then-Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Corradini to sell a block of Main Street to the church for $8.1 million. The church had been coveting the downtown land for years, as it slowly snatched up all the real estate surrounding the Mormon Tabernacle, its religious capital.
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