Well, under the current political climate I've heard the good Lord used to justify all kinds of nonsense but Sessions has sunk to new lows in his commentary on Chris Peterson and his purchase of the Malan property. Isn't it fabulous that he can invoke God, the working class and something he calls consecrated higher education, all to further his myopic view of the world. Did it ever occur to him that many of the great unwashed who don't work in the hallowed (and safely tenured) halls of the University would like an opportunity to live in a community that can provide good paying, decent employment with hope for future improvement in their "poverty-stricken neighborhoods". Yea, even some of his very students may desire to graduate and get a real job in Ogden so they too can spend their lives productively living "in the shadows of Mt. Ogden".
It wouldn't occur to a theoretical thinker like the good Professor that if the iron men who brought the train to the valley had opted to leave this city "the way God made it", his grandfather wouldn't have had a railroad to be a switchman on and his father wouldn't have had a stockyard to work at. I guess then the whole Sessions family could have spent generations wandering through the mountains eating pine trees (some parts are edible...or was that Grape Nuts).
As for the consecrated University, I guess it would be interfering with "the mission and integrity of the great educational institution" to provide for a future that would include immediate access to students to the finest recreational opportunities in the world. Do you think that might encourage out of area, out of state and out of country students to gain their higher education in such a setting (Philistines excluded) , paying out of state tuition, providing amazing student diversity and finally developing a campus based student community and real campus life the lack of which Weber has been infamous for? Would it be such a desecration to attract a world class ski team to Weber. Would it violate some portion of the Bible to start a working relationship between the resort and the University that would include degrees in hotel and hospitality management, food service, resort design and equipment maintenance to name just a few. Would it be a "nonsensical pipe dream" to intelligently develop some non polluting, clean recreational industries and activities that might attract tourists to our restaurants and hotels, business that may employ future generations of Sessions and conventions to our beautiful but often empty convention center. Incidentally this may result in a solution to your other constant whine relating to underpaid professors.
Who are you and the "many of us here in this community" who you claim to be speaking for who "will not allow" a private citizen to use his private property in any legal and legitimate way he deems appropriate. Isn't this also an "INALIENABLE RIGHT ENDOWED BY THE CREATOR". If you and these others "love Ogden and the mountains around it so dearly" and "love deeply every square foot of that land and come to the point of tears every time I walk on it", why didn't any of you see your way through your tears to your wallets and buy this "Eden" so you could each personally protect it from forward thinking men who are willing to put their hard earned money where there mouth is.