The head of the Utah Republican Party stood up Sunday in front of like-minded Utahns congregated to watch Charlie Kirk’s funeral service — a gathering he called “sanctified.”

In front of him sat elected Republicans like U.S. Rep. Burgess Owens, state Attorney General Derek Brown and Auditor Tina Cannon. A handful of Utah’s other top Republicans, like Gov. Spencer Cox and Sen. Mike Lee, traveled the 500 miles to Arizona to join the memorial in person.

There, President Donald Trump labeled the controversial conservative activist a “martyr,” and called him “our greatest evangelist for American liberty.”

“We have to bring back religion to America — because without borders, law and order and religion, you really don’t have a country anymore,” Trump told the audience.

And Kirk’s death, the p

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