The Beehive Confederacy

Sen. Orrin Hatch
United States Senate

Dear Sen. Hatch,

I want to thank you for upholding traditional conservative Utah values by refusing to sign on as a co-sponsor of the anti-lynching resolution. The fact that many people wonder why both of Utah's senators would stand with those from the old Confederacy on this issue illustrates just how much of our state's heritage has been lost.

As you may recall from your history classes, Utah became a US territory as part of the Compromise of 1850. The Senate could not agree on the issue of slavery in the territories, so to save the compromise, they left the question to the people of Utah. Two years later, the territorial legislature passed a bill legalizing slavery and the territorial governor, the prophet Brigham Young, signed it into law. Utah remained a slave territory by choice until the practice was ended by an arrogant federal government a decade later.

Although Confederate culture lived on for many years after slavery ended (the state's official church enforced it's own Jim Crow laws until 1978) many have forgotten this part of our proud conservative heritage. I think that's a shame. That's why I'm so grateful to you and Sen. Bennett for standing with our white robed brethren from the Old Confederacy in opposition to the humiliating anti-lynching resolution.

Heterosexually yours,

Gen. JC Christian, patriot