"Bowers was the first of several witnesses at Tuesday's hearing to detail efforts by Trump and his inner circle to undo the former president's 2020 election loss by pressuring state officials to subvert the will of the voters and put forward false slates of electors.

Bowers stood firm throughout. After his calls with Trump and Giuliani, he said Tuesday, Trump lawyer John Eastman phoned and again asked him to "take a vote ... to decertify [Biden's] electors." And again, Bowers refused.

"You're asking me to do something that's never been done in the history of the United States and ... put my state through that without sufficient proof?" Bowers objected.

"Just do it and have the court sort it out," was how Bowers characterized Eastman's response."

Despite such personal blowback, Bowers went on to use an unusual parliamentary maneuver in January 2022 to kill a bill that would have overhauled elections in Arizona, giving the state Legislature the power to reject election results.

A few months later, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation named him as one of five recipients of its annual Profile in Courage Award.

"I am very grateful for this honor yet cannot help but feel undeserving of it," Bowers said in a statement. "Honoring my oath and the people's choices at the ballot box are not heroic acts " they are the least that Arizonans should expect from the people elected to serve them."

Yep.... moral values appear to mean more to the LDS than to the Evangels.

Bet they would hate for that to become a meme.