Paul T. Mero is President of the Sutherland Institute

Sutherland Institute

Sutherland Institute is a conservative public policy think tank located in Salt Lake City, Utah.The institute is an independent, non-partisan organization that produces policy research, provides award-winning educational seminars, and engages in legislative advocacy. The Institute was founded in...

, a conservative public policy think-tank based in Salt Lake City, Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

. He is the author of several publications, speeches and books.

Background

Paul T. Mero received education from Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

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From 1987 to 1997, he was employed by the United States Congress

United States Congress

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, where he served 2 conservative House members.

From 1998 to 2000, Paul Mero was the Executive Vice-President of the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society

Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society

The Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society is an organizations that promotes research that attempts to demonstrate the alleged importance of a mother and father with a family consisting of their own biological children as the basic unit of society....

 in Rockford, Illinois. In 1999, as part of his duties, he coordinated the meeting of the 2nd World Congress of Families

World Congress of Families

The World Congress of Families is a worldwide conservative-religious coalition that purports to "stand up for the position of the traditional family, in a time of eroding family life and declining appreciation for families in general".Dr...

 in Geneva

Geneva

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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Public Activities

Paul Mero is a frequent guest at the Fabrizio's KUED

KUED

KUED is full-service Public Broadcasting Service public television located in Salt Lake City, Utah, broadcasting locally in digital-only on UHF channel 42. It is one of two PBS member stations serving the Salt Lake City, Utah metropolitan area...

 show and is a host at the “Mero Moment” radio show, which airs every Tuesday at the KVNU

KVNU

KVNU is a news talk radio station in Logan, Utah, USA. The call letters stand for "the Voice of Northern Utah". The station was started in 1938 by Reed Bullen, who owned the station until 1996 when it was sold to the Cache Valley Radio Group...

(610 AM) radio station that serves Cache Valley residents. In his speeches, Mero covers a broad spectrum of topics from family issues to immigration problems.

Publications

• The natural family: A Manifesto
• The Natural Family: Bulwark of Liberty
• Removing Classrooms from the Battlefield: Liberty, Paternalism, and the Redemptive Promise of Educational Choice