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The LDS Church has held notable political influence on laws around LGBT individuals in the United States, especially in the state of Utah. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) has been involved with many pieces of legislation relating to LGBT people and their rights (e.g. housing, job discrimination, and same-sex marriage). [1]
The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) [12] is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret [13] by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, [1] 25 years before Brigham Young University and making it Utah's oldest institution of higher education. [14]
2015 – The church released a public statement and employed its lobbyists to garner support for a proposed Utah nondiscrimination bill granting housing and employment protection for LGBT persons in Utah. [127] Though similar bills had failed six times before, [128] SB 296 was passed in March.
Several critics argued that the Fed should use regulation and interest rates to prevent asset-price bubbles, [66] blamed former Fed-chairman Alan Greenspan's low interest rate policies for stoking the U.S. housing boom and subsequent bust, [67] [68] and Yale University economist Robert Shiller warned of possible home price declines of 50 ...
This category includes various buildings and other structures located on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The university library has had multiple homes since the first University of Utah librarian was appointed in 1850. The current building was opened in 1968 and named for J. Willard Marriott, founder of Marriott International, in 1969. After two major renovations, the building is more than 500,000 square feet (46,000 m 2) and houses more than 4.5 ...
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University of Utah administrators adopted a policy in 1991 to prohibit employment discrimination including that based on sexual orientation. [40] Administrators extended the policy in 1996 to prohibit discrimination in faculty duties, in 1997 to prohibit discrimination in student rights and responsibilities, and in 2009 to prohibit ...