Utah would be a theocracy if the one true church could get away with it.
Indeed. Our lust for power knows no bounds.
Burn the Gentiles! 10% of all citizen income to the Church! Mandatory fasting! Armed missionaries!
State where >50% of citizens are LDS. By extension, >50% of state legislators are LDS. Said legislators legislate as one would predict LDS legislators to legislate. News at 11.
If the LDS church releasing statements of position on moral issues = theocracy, then yes, we are a theocracy. Yes, many legislators that are active members of said religion will take said statements into consideration. Plenty that don't, and vote contrary, if you look at voting records.
If legislators were facing church discipline for voting "wrong", maybe you'd have a point about attempted theocracy, but they don't. I'm not claiming the LDS church doesn't influence Utah politics, but it desiring a theocracy is a bit far-fetched.