As a Utah resident, I am ashamed of the new immigration law, SB81. Much is made of a "dominant religion" in the Utah Legislature; this is one time when religious principles were abandoned by legislators.

It's alarming that those who could have created a model for national immigration exemplifying compassion did just the opposite by demonstrating bigotry. They know better.

They know these immigrants should be helped to "blossom as a rose" by being "carried in our arms and on our shoulders"; they know we are to be "nursing fathers and mothers" to them (see 1 Nephi 21:22 in the Book of Mormon).

In SB81, the legislators who belong to the dominant religion rejected responsibility and failed the least of us, and in so doing have failed all of us. No wonder that in the end, "the last shall be first, and the first last" (Matthew 20:16). With the attitudes reflected in SB81, our legislators just guaranteed all that goes with that statement.

Stuart C. Reid

Ogden


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