• Reforming the state's child-protection system. Ruzicka panned the Division of Child and Family Services, accusing it of taking children from homes for trivial reasons like a parent's poor housekeeping skills.

• Fighting illegal immigration and trying to stop Utah from allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver licenses or in-state tuition at public schools.

• Limiting abortion. "Unborn babies continue to die," Ruzicka said. Buttars also outlined his agenda for the coming term, promising that hate-crimes laws will not make it out of the Rules Committee, which he chairs, and vowing to kill any proposed primary seat-belt laws.

"When does it stop? The government tells me how many times to brush my teeth?" he said.

Eagle Forum members spent the rest of the day-long convention listening to speeches on topics ranging from the importance of home-schooling to complaints about so-called activist judges.

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