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Mormon seminary students at West High School got an earful from a substitute teacher Thursday and Friday. To wit:

The U.S. is not living Abraham's covenant and, as a result, is jeopardizing the promises God made to his people in four areas:

Security ­• Sin brought about 9/11 and the militant Islamic State.

Prosperity • Sin has brought volatile markets.

Posterity • Homosexuals and people who choose not to have children are endangering population growth.

Property • The federal government is taking over the land.

The substitute with the unusual teaching agenda was Republican activist Cherilyn Eagar, who has run unsuccessfully for Congress.

She told students she supported the self-described militia's takeover of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, although The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has denounced it.

Eagar, who heads a nonprofit think tank called the American Leadership Fund that blends a political agenda with its morality-based concepts, also told the students that a sign of secularization in the United States is lesbians being in charge of Catholic schools. She compared Canaanite child sacrifice to abortion.

It seems Eagar is preparing a new crop of future Utah legislators.

One irony of her appearance at the LDS seminary last week is that Eagar, who is a Republican state delegate and a member of the party's state central committee, has been one of the loudest voices against the acclaimed International Baccalaureate program, alleging that it teaches socialism and promotes a "U.N. agenda."

Salt Lake City's West High was the first Utah school to offer the IB program.

Cougars shouldn't throw stones • Brigham Young University basketball coach Dave Rose and many Cougar fans have said they are disappointed, even disgusted, by Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak's decision to cancel the 2016 game between the two rivals.

After BYU guard Nick Emery sucker-punched the Utes' Brandon Taylor during last month's matchup, Krystkowiak decided the rivalry had become too toxic and needed a cooling-off period.

Rose has said the cancellation is an overreaction, but the BYU coach insisted in 2008 that games between the Cougars and Utah State University be held on a neutral court — the Utah Jazz's arena in Salt Lake City — because he wouldn't take his team to Logan.

That angered Aggie fans, according to a story at the time in USU's student newspaper, with one student calling Rose "a pansy."

According to that story, Rose said he wouldn't take his team to Logan because the crowd at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum was too mean.

Governmental immunity? • Utah County Republicans are known for advocating small government and low taxes. But Republican Utah County Commissioner Bill Lee has taken the idea a step further.

He apparently has no use for government licensing agencies or the fees they impose.

Staffers at the Utah County Commission offices have been wondering for five months when Lee might get around to renewing his vehicle registration, since the license plate on his silver Pontiac Grand Prix expired in August.

One employee called Provo police about it last week, but the car was parked in the county office building parking lot, which police said was private property, so they couldn't do anything about it.

Honoring Randy Horiuchi • A celebration of life will be held for former Salt Lake County Council member Randy Horiuchi on Friday at 5 p.m. at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City.

Horiuchi, who previously served as a Salt Lake County commissioner and had been chairman of the Utah Democratic Party, died Nov. 19 due to complications from an earlier stroke.

The two-hour event is open to the public.