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Letter: Mormon church‘s push for a Martha Cannon statue is a PR ploy to say, ‘See, we do value women as equals‘

Please let the 40 percent non-Mormon population of Utah have a state statue that doesn’t scream “Mormon” in the hall of statues in Washington, D.C.

Although I realize that Philo T. Farnsworth was born in Beaver to a Mormon pioneer, the article in the Feb. 12 Tribune about cities clamoring to put the Farnsworth statue in their area smacks of a “done deal.”

It is unfair to the rest of the state’s residents who deserve to be represented as well. I see it as a public-relations ploy by the LDS Church to say to the world, “See, we do value women as equals.