Gordon Monson: If the Great Salt Lake dies, Missouri may be Latter-day Saints’ Zion and savior

The Great Salt Lake looms in the background of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Bountiful Temple in December 2022. The shrinking lake threatens to make living nears its shores dangerous and even deadly.It’s a six-way mashup, really, a mix of government, religion, nature, finances, survival and you. It will affect everyone around here — or at least it could — who has an interest in any of those things or, in many cases, all of them.

This is where the religion angle comes in. It has long been a part of Latter-day Saint lore that while The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is headquartered in Salt Lake City, this is not Zion. Well, this is notZion. This is not where the Saints — not all of them, anyway — will ultimately gather for the Second Coming. No, Zion will be built, it is said, in Missouri.

Many of them would rather everything and everyone, including themselves, stay right where they are, in the beautiful mountains and valleys around Salt Lake City, where housing is expensive, where homelessness persists, where the politics are a little weird and more than a little lopsided, where a single church is powerful enough to dictate public policy, where wintertime inversions already are enough to gag a toad, where the liquor laws are what they are, where women are paid less than men for...

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