The Utah bill : a plea for religious liberty : speech of Hon. They highlight the mounting tension between the Saints and the American nation and offer a much longer view of events leading up to the Utah War of 1857–58.Mike Lee said Vice President Kamala Harris presents a threat to people of faith because of her past efforts to reform religious freedom laws. A sampling of the laws and court decisions that slowly outlawed the legal right to practice plural marriage in the US during Utah's journey to statehood. 450 U.S. at 720–27. Utah remains the only place where the Church is in the majority. Halting discrimination on the basis of religion in the U.S. immigration system. The Court held that the state had an overriding interest in protecting public health and safety.