The Politics of Division Divides Us All

Today, I participated in an event with the CD4 Coalition at Utah Office of Representative Burgess Owens. We gifted the Congressman with a puzzle of the entire district. Below is the full text of my speech.

Before this morning, I had an entirely different idea of what I wanted to say today. But this morning, I received the news of the untimely death of a former high school classmate of mine. We’d attended and graduated from a public school in Cincinnati, that was at the time, only one of its kind. It was called an alternative school, which is a modern day public…