Utah Transcripts Declared OK for Public
By ED WHITE
The Associated Press
January 1, 2008

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Transcripts of 1996 meetings involving the
governor at the time discussing how to incorporate Mormon principles
into policy will remain available to the public because the talks
involved state business, an official said Monday.

Mike Leavitt, now U.S. secretary of health and human services, had
asked the Utah State Archives to review the transcripts'
classification after they were obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune and
the subject of a story Sunday.

The documents are transcripts of "Early Morning Seminary" meetings
involving Leavitt, staff members and others at the governor's mansion.

Meetings opened with a prayer, followed by stories from the Book of
Mormon and discussion of how the lessons could apply to government.

Leavitt had argued that some people at the meetings expressed beliefs
that were personal or "even sacred." But archivist Patricia Smith-
Mansfield said the records appear to involve state business and will
remain accessible.

During one session, Leavitt and others talked about King Benjamin, who
in the Book of Mormon encourages people to serve one another. Leavitt
said the king's era would be a "prime one to look at" when studying
the success of civilizations.

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