Utah Valley University’s decision to hand its commencement stage to Sharon McMahon is not just wrong. It is morally bankrupt.
On a campus still scarred by the murder of Charlie Kirk, UVU has chosen a speaker who, in that moment of national grief, could not muster the basic decency to honor a life lost. Instead, she chose to diminish it. That is not leadership. It is arrogance, self-righteousness, and condescension posing as virtue.
UVU did not just tolerate that behavior. They rewarded it.
This is a stunning failure of judgment by an institution that should know better and a speaker who has shown she does not.
Charlie Kirk was a husband, a patriot, and a man who inspired millions of young Americans to stand up and engage. His life deserves respect. His wife deserves compassion. What UVU is offering instead is contempt.
This decision is an insult to every student, every family, and every decent person who expects more from a university.
UVU should reverse course immediately.
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