State Senator Buttars, Republican-West Jordan, had a letter to the editor published in USA Today on August 8, 2005. In part it reads:

The campaign to eliminate God from the public forum has been going on for decades, having accelerated greatly since the Supreme Court's ill-advised decision in 1963 to eliminate prayer from public schools. And I believe those fighting against the teaching of intelligent design in schools have an ulterior motive to eliminate references to God from the entire public forum...

Teaching evolution is really about the determined drive by activists to eliminate any reference to an intelligent power in the universe. That said, could it be that the reason they can't find the missing link is that human evolution didn't happen at all?

Predictably much of the (mis)information in Buttars' letter is incorrect and misleading. However, the senator has also threatened our public schools to either knuckle under and give credence to the newly resurrected concept of Creationism called Intelligent Design or face legislation.

Both major Salt Lake Papers have published numerous letters to the editor from both sides of the issue. This issue of the Utah Humanist contains opinions written by chapter leaders, present and past, on the subject.