The July 7 article, “Utah’s senators should vote no on Ron Mortensen” written by Utah state Sen. Curt Bramble, David Irvine and Paul Mero was a nasty piece of character assassination.
Ron Mortensen, Ph.D., is a retired career U.S. Foreign Service officer and former Society for Human Resource Management senior executive. He’s also a strong opponent of illegal immigration and has been nominated for the assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.
First he was attacked because he disagrees with the LDS Church’s position on illegal immigration. So what? He’s being nominated for a government job, not for membership in the Quorums of the Seventy.