Simple Utah Mormon Politics

How would a top legal officer in the state of Utah be answering questions about whether gambling is legal in Utah?  More importantly, how would that officer NOT know that it IS illegal?

One of the most counterproductive things we can do with scripture is to take it out of context--even when it comes to the Book of Mormon. Actually..especially when it comes to the Book of Mormon.

We often called Native Americans, Asian Pacific Islanders, and others "Lamanites", but does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teach that all such modern-day peoples descended exclusively from Book of Mormon ancestors? One of the most common misconceptions of Mormonism is to think so. But in fact, this is not the case. There is a great deal of LDS scholarship and pulpit teaching that says quite the opposite.