My Plea Today for a 'Utah Love Day' Annual Celebration on February 14 That Honors Both Mutual-Consent Platonic Love Relationships and Mutual-Consent Romantic Love Relationships in Utah

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From: "John McMillan" <mcmillanj@att.net>

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Subject: Valentine'sDay Disenfranchises UTPlatonicLove Couples

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/01/09/how-to-adult-friends-relationships/

January 25, 2024

Dear Utah State House Majority Leader Mike Schultz,

This is a revised and corrected version of the brainstorming letter I sent you earlier today.

Thank you again for your friendly December 6, 2023, reply letter to me in which you invited me to write to you about concerns of mine relating to Utah.

I am  a gainfully employed,  law-abiding, non-stalking,  platonicly polite, permanently alcohol-free, lifelong-tobacco-free, facially cleanshaven, lifelong tattoo-less, longtime celibate, lifelong-single, adult male white non-Hispanic permanent resident of Utah. I have  strong Utah ancestry and very strong LDS ancestry through the  "McMillan" and "Pugh" branches of my family tree here in Utah.

As I'm sure you are very aware, the Utah State House has a vital role in helping to promote healthy cultural  traditions here in the Beehive State. 

I am writing you today to ask you to please lend your very influential support as a state official  to a proposed State of Utah-approved  revision of the annual  Valentine's Day tradition in our state. 

In anticipation of the annual statewide celebration  of Valentine's Day that will occur  on Wednesday, February 14, I respectfully urge you to please ask your nobly idealistic colleagues in the Utah House to approve a very special non-binding Resolution as soon as possible.

I am referring to a non-binding State House  Resolution that adds PLATONIC LOVE RELATIONSHIPS  to the other personal   relationships that are   celebrated statewide each year on February 14.

The proposed non-binding Utah House Resolution might contain statements such as:

"Whereas Valentine's Day is a very special  annual civic celebration event for  many Utahns; and

"Whereas Valentine's Day in Utah is not an official state holiday; and 

"Whereas historical reports about the origins of Valentine's Day are conflicting and very unreliable; and 

"Whereas reports about the alleged slaying of the man who reportedly lent his name to Valentine's Day are very gruesome and severely undermine  the celebration of either romantic love or platonic love on February 14; and 

"Whereas promotion of kind-hearted love in mutual-consent personal relationships in Utah can help reduce the incidence of Domestic Violence throughout our state; and 

"Whereas the promotion of mutual-consent love in Utah is good for to the cardiovascular medical  health of all Utahns and inspires harmonious serenity and long-lasting romantic relationships as well as long-lasting romantic  marriages throughout our state; and 

"Whereas promotion of love in Utah can help prevent addiction to alcohol, tobacco, vaping, opioids, illicit drugs, and gambling  by many thousands of Utahns; and

"Whereas promotion of love in Utah helps prevent criminal conduct, including violent felony crimes, and specifically violent Hate Crimes, throughout our entire  state; and 

"Whereas mutual-consent romantic love relationships  in Utah often inspire creative cultural accomplishments such as the writing of heartfelt works of poetry and personal essays and short stories and theatrical plays and novels, and the creation of heartfelt works of visual art such as landscape paintings, portraits, vases, or statues of beloved persons; and 

"Whereas Valentine's Day each year is also  very beneficial to  the economy of our state through sales of thousands of Valentine-shaped boxes of candy, and through  thousands of romantic dinner outings in Utahn restaurants by 

romantic couples who are  paying guests, and through  romantic couples partaking of  Romantic Movies or Romantic Theatrical Plays as paying guests inside  movie theaters and stage theaters in Utah; and 

"Whereas many thousands of Utahns are under age 18 and are legally ineligible as minors to participate in a full  romantic love relationship involving full physical intimacy with a mutual-consent  romantic partner;  and 

"Whereas many youths in Utah are victims of parental abuse or neglect and can benefit emotionally from participating in an annual statewide celebration of platonic  love; and 

"Whereas many youths in Utah are bullied by schoolmates of theirs who hurl death threats at them; and 

"Whereas many thousands of Utahns are single adult  persons who underwent a divorce and who do not currently have a mutual-consent romantic love partner, and 

"Whereas many thousands of Utahns are widows or widowers who have chosen to lead permanently celibate lifestyles for the remainder of their own lives; and

"Whereas many thousands of Utahns are mothers or fathers or adoptive parents or   grandparents or aunts or uncles who have deep PLATONIC  love for a younger relative of theirs;

and 

"Whereas many thousands of Utahns benefit on a year-round basis from having heartfelt conversations with,  and receiving heartfelt  advice from, personal friends of theirs who are also platonic love companions of theirs; and 

"Whereas recent studies (see above copyrighted online link) have found that mutual-consent platonic personal relationships, including mutual-consent  platonic love relationships, enhance the emotional health and level of happiness and medical longevity of persons  involved in those platonic relationships;

"THEREFORE, be it Resolved by the Utah House of Representatives that Wednesday, February 14, 2024, Be Hereby Declared 'Utah Love Day'  In Honor of Both Mutual-Consent Platonic Love Relationships  and Mutual-Consent Romantic Love Relationships here in the Beehive State."

House Majority Leader Schultz, I hope this type of proposed Resolution appeals to you and your colleagues in the House.

With Friendly Best Wishes,

"Progressive Prohibitionist Religion" founder and only member (it is a new and non-proseltyzing politely non-Christian religion that does not agree to having a second member at any time in the foreseeable future) John Kevin McMillan.

I am the youngest grandson of Murray (UT) butcher shop owner Parley Neal McMillan of Murray and his devoted wife, Mrs. Alice Mae Pugh (maiden surname) McMillan of Murray. 

My solo-occupancy fully locked and bolt-locked  studio  rental apartment unit home address ever since June 1, 2022:

 535 South 200 East, Apt. 912, Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.

My cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

My home phone: (801) 355-0850.

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