The interfaith press conference featured spiritual leaders from several perspectives, but the message was unified: Legislators need to take action this session to protect the lake.
Spiritual leader Rios Pacheco of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation speaks to the importance of the Great Salt Lake to his community. Pacheco was the first speaker at an interfaith press conference Thursday morning at the Capitol.The Utah Capitol’s rotunda west steps were crowded Thursday morning. Members from various faith communities held signs reading “defend our future.” Front and center, a red and blue banner: “Save Our Great Salt Lake.
Dobbins’ voice wasn’t the only one echoing the sentiment. The interfaith press conference featured spiritual leaders from several perspectives, but the message was unified:“There’s so many different streams that come in to make the Great Salt Lake, and to see all these different people from different streams of faith coming together, it’s just a really beautiful thing that we can work together on something that really does impact all of us,” Pastor AJ Bush said in an interview.
“One of the poisons that can stop us from acting on these issues is despair and fear,” Abbott said in an interview. “When we move from fear to hope and action, that is incredibly rejuvenating, and that’s what we need right now because Great Salt Lake is just one symptom of a deeper problem — of people feeling disconnected from one another and from the environment.”
“Jesus’ second greatest commandment was to love our neighbors as ourselves,” Page said. “Our neighbors include the millions of birds and other creatures who critically depend on Great Salt Lake for their survival, as well as all the people who inhabit the Salt Lake Valley area.”
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