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MWEG Member Op-Ed :: ‘Joe Biden asked me to pray for America. I said yes because I value the truth.’
“On Thursday morning, I shared both my faith and my love for this country and its citizens as a participant in the National Inaugural Prayer Service. As I’m not a pastor or a priest, you may wonder how a mother from the Midwest ended up on the program for a presidential inaugural event.” Click here for the full text of this USA Today opinion piece written by MWEG member and leader Emma Petty Addams.
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MWEG Member Op-Ed :: ‘When It Comes to Wearing a Mask, Just Do It’
“Let’s talk about our social contracts. There are laws and policies that dictate what we have to wear. Most states, and many cities, including Provo, have decency laws that require adults to wear a certain amount of clothing. Why? Because it protects me when I wear them, and it protects you and makes you feel more comfortable. Many businesses have policies that state, “No shoes, no shirt, no service.” Why? Because it protects the business against liability from injury or discomfort of their customers and employees. There are also many people who adhere to certain dress codes because of religious instruction. Are you one of them?” Click here for the…
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MWEG Member Op-Ed :: “An Epidemiologist’s View on Personal Liberty and Mask-Wearing”
“The tricky part is that we can’t eliminate COVID-19 by focusing only on our individual liberty — we have to exercise a kind of generous, communal commitment to liberty as a principle. We have to believe in protecting the liberty of another as much as protecting the liberty of ourselves, and that belief has to drive us to make some necessary personal sacrifices.” MWEG member Chantel Sloan is an infectious disease epidemiologist who has a front-row seat to COVID-19. Read more of her thoughts on the pandemic, mask-wearing, and freedom in this Deseret News opinion piece. “An Epidemiologist’s View on Personal Liberty and Mask-Wearing” • May 27, 2020 • Deseret…
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MWEG Member Op-Ed :: “America’s New Threat Might Be Middle-Class Hunger”
“In late March, when the Javits Center in New York was converted into a hospital, I became obsessed with protecting my parents from the coronavirus. I didn’t want my 86-year-old mother to die on a cot in a convention center. Then images of farmers ploughing their crops under gave me a new goal: to make sure my mom, who experienced chronic hunger as a child in postwar Europe, doesn’t go to bed hungry in her old age, too.” MWEG member Stefanie Condie is concerned about the tremendous strain COVID-19 is putting on our food system. Read her op-ed to learn more about why rationing may become more and more necessary, despite the…
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MWEG Member Op-Ed :: “Can the Democrats Avoid Trump’s China Trap?”
“Before the pandemic, before the Great Recession, before proliferating hurricanes and fires, the United States began a global war on terrorism. Its leaders fixated on a shadowy enemy abroad as life at home crumbled for millions of Americans. The war on terrorism did not end terrorism; the war itself became endless. What it did shatter was the myth that a triumphant United States could bend the world to its will.” Click here to read the New York Times op-ed where MWEG member Rachel Esplin Odell decries the folly of turning this pandemic crisis into a geopolitical struggle that will further drain America’s resources and endanger our security. “Can the Democrats…
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MWEG Member Op-Ed: “Romney Should Stand for a Fair Impeachment Trial”
“I’m a Romney Republican. In fact, Sen. Mitt Romney and I have a lot in common. Like the senator, I’ve been a Republican all my life, and I’ve even served as a state delegate and precinct chair. Like the senator, I love my family and I’m devoted to my faith. We even form part of the same community: Sen. Romney is my grandmother’s neighbor.” Click here to read MWEG member Emily Taylor’s Salt Lake Tribune op-ed calling for Republicans who are true to their faith to lead the fight to hear from witnesses in President Trump’s impeachment trial. Romney Should Stand for a Fair Impeachment Trial • January 28, 2020…
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MWEG Member Op-Ed :: “Guns and Shootings — the Problem Is All of Us”
“Yes, the problem is guns. Yes, the problem is mental illness. Yes, the problem is the FBI and other institutions not doing their job. Yes, the problem is the culture of violence we have created in this country. Yes, the problem is people. Yes, the problem is the lack of funding for research. Yes, the problem is an unfettered NRA and all the politicians it has in its pocket. Yes, yes, yes.” In this Deseret News op-ed, MWEG members Sharlee Mullins Glenn and Melissa Dalton-Bradford explain why we must engage once and for all in a productive national conversation about guns and shootings that leads to a real solution. “Guns…
