Meeting with Rep. Chaffetz and Utah Muslim leaders

Here’s some coverage of the Wednesday evening meeting that I participated in with Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) up in Salt Lake City along with some of the greater Salt Lake area’s Muslim leaders:

KUTV:  “Rep. Chaffetz meets with Utah Muslims about President’s order viewed as anti-Muslim”

Fox13:  “Rep. Jason Chaffetz meets with Utah Muslims to discuss immigration order”

Salt Lake Tribune:  “Chaffetz meets with Utah Muslims to address Trump’s ban”

The meeting was called by Rep. Chaffetz just this morning.  I was invited to attend, and was happy to do so.  It was interesting, and there were some very heartfelt statements both of love for America and of deep concern.

You can see my gray, bald head in some of the shots.  But, alas, because I had to race back down to Utah Valley in order to teach my weekly Institute class, I didn’t do any interviews after the meeting.  The media probably wouldn’t have asked me for one anyway, of course, as they were more interested (for obvious reasons) in talking to the Congressman and the Muslim leaders than in speaking with me.  But we’ll never really know, and, in any case, television audiences were unable to further contemplate my telegenic good looks.

Incidentally, my Institute lesson tonight was #19 in the new Book of Mormon manual, which focuses on “Defending Religious Freedom.”  It went really well with the meeting that I’d just had in Salt Lake.