Utah Speaker Appeared At Far-Right “Patriot” Event

The Salt Lake Tribune reports:

Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz, who has made increasing trust in government a focus of his tenure as a legislative leader, is giving conflicting reasons for keeping his calendar of speaking engagements from the public after speaking at a Christian nationalist event last month.

In January, Schultz was a featured speaker at an event sponsored by “Patriot Academy,” a far-right group that offers “biblical citizenship” training programs that encourage the Christian nationalist belief that government should be run according to Christian values.

Rick Green, who headlined the event, is a close ally of pseudo-historian David Barton, who claims the authors of the U.S. Constitution did not intend for the separation of church and state and wanted to create an explicitly Christian country.

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Utah House speaker spoke at a Christian nationalist event. Now Legislature says they have no record of his public calendar. https://t.co/gHI3q1pUDr

— The Salt Lake Tribune (@sltrib) February 13, 2024