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Utah Sheriff's Letter To Employees Questioned on Church-State Grounds

By Howard M. Friedman

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Weber County, Utah sheriff Terry Thompson has removed a letter he sent to his employees from the Sheriff Department's Facebook page after a church-state objection by an employee was sent to him by a Salt Lake City attorney. According to yesterday's Deseret News, the letter told employees: "Always know that God, in whatever form you picture Him, recognizes our sacrifice and service, understands our imperfections and blesses us." It went on to assert that the death penalty was morally sound and said that God was "OK with it." Today's Ogden (UT) Standard-Examiner reports that local clergy are split over the propriety of the sheriff's letter, and a number object to his views on capital punishment.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on January 14, 2011 (boomark / email).

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