The County Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution asking state lawmakers to stop talking or studying the need to change existing law — something they’ve been doing for at least a decade — and finally pass a bill.
What passed however was a second proposal from Republican Richard Snelgrove that married Bradshaw’s specific call for legislative action with and an expanded and detailed list of religious groups commonly targeted in bias crimes, including Jews, Mormons, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and others.
“I’d like to see less hate in our community, less racism, less homophobia, less Islamophobia, less Mormonphobia, less anti-Semitism,” Snelgrove said, noting that he sees the seeds of hate being sewn on the comment boards of most media outlets in Utah.