The Flag of the Kingdom of God of the State of Deseret flies above Utah's capital city at the Ensign Peak Nature Park — a Salt Lake City municipal park. After calls to take down the Confederate ...

Brooks was one of the designers behind the new Utah flag design that the Utah Legislature approved earlier in the day. (Photo: Kristin Murphy, Deseret News) Mark Brooks, one of the flag designers ...

But all are part of our history. Among those banners is the historic flag of the state of Deseret. The state was the self-proclaimed government of land that includes modern-day Utah, settled by ...

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Recent calls to bring down the Confederate flag flying over the South Carolina Capitol have prompted questions about whether the Deseret flag should similarly be removed.