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How NOT to Investigate Mitt Romney’s Mormon Ties

By Joanna Brooks

…s campaign connections to found a private equity firm. Just last week, the Salt Lake Tribune reported that an LDS Church official with the same last name mistakenly used a church email account to fundraise for Romney 2012. Pay attention to the names. Mormons do. I cite these two recent stories not to suggest any kind of wrongdoing. What I am saying is that to understand the Mormon world that Mitt Romney moves in, the world that has shaped his pers…

Dear Mitt, Young Mormon Families Need Medicaid Too

By Catherine Jeppsen

…also includes a significant number of young Mormons like me. Last year the Salt Lake Tribune reported that “44 percent of births to parents who listed ‘student’ as their occupation” in Utah in 2008 were funded by Medicaid. About 39 percent of those births occurred in Utah County, home to a population that’s about 80% Mormon and to LDS Church-owned Brigham Young University. As the wife of a BYU graduate student, I know that using Medicaid to financ…

From Murderous to ‘MORG’: Mormonism Meets the Press

By Joanna Brooks

…ples that countervail this general trend. Peggy Fletcher Stack of the Salt Lake Tribune has been providing thoughtful and nuanced coverage of Mormonism for decades, while more recently McKay Coppins of BuzzFeed has emerged as an invaluable source on the faith angles of Romney’s candidacy. Matthew Bowman (who recently wrote about the emergence of the LDS corporate culture), Kathleen Flake, Kristine Haglund, and Ben Park are among the LDS scholars w…

Mormon D.C. Pride Delegation Continues Nationwide Movement

By Joanna Brooks

…r Marriage Equality.” Like the Mormons Building Bridges contingent in Salt Lake City, most of the LDS marchers wore Sunday dress. At one point along the parade route, a man dressed in a blue t-shirt, camouflage cap, and Mardi Gras beads around his neck yelled, “Mormons! You’re Mormons!” He pushed through the parade watchers and with tears in his eyes jumped into the Mormons for Marriage Equality contingent and started to hug the marchers. “Oh my g…

Is Criticizing Mitt Romney an Excommunicable Offense? No.

By Joanna Brooks

…egin and end.” And by late Friday, journalists Peggy Fletcher Stack at the Salt Lake Tribune and Laurie Goodstein at the New York Times also had a more complicated story to tell than that reported at The Daily Beast. According to Stack, the major precipitant for the disciplinary council was not the essay questioning Romney’s political independence from the Church but rather a Mormonthink.com article that publicly disclosed details from LDS temple…

What’s Wrong with the Controversial Businessweek “Mormon Money” Cover?

By Joanna Brooks

…of a foundational moment in Mormon history. As Peggy Fletcher Stack of the Salt Lake Tribune describes: It features an illustration of John the Baptist with his hands on the heads of LDS founder Joseph Smith and his assistant, Oliver Cowdery, and a quote bubble which reads: “And thou shalt build a shopping mall, own stock in Burger King and open a Polynesian theme park in Hawaii that shall be largely exempt from the frustrations of tax…” The profo…

Call Centers and… Congregational Email Lists

By Joanna Brooks

The Salt Lake Tribune describes the way the Romney campaign is putting his Utah supporters to work calling into battleground states. It is, after all, standard operating procedure for political parties to put supporters in non-contested states to work for the larger campaign. But it looks like at least a few of Romney’s Utah supporters are using LDS congregational email lists to drum up donations—despite explicit instructions not to do so from LD…

How Mormon is Mitt Romney? Over 50 Jokes For Trump

By Joanna Brooks

…k another shot at the former GOP presidential candidate at a rally in Salt Lake City, Utah on Friday, asking the crowd, “Are you sure he’s a Mormon? Are we sure?” Responding to Trump rhetoric may be like feeding a Gremlin after midnight, but we at RD were lucky to have the following in the archives from the 2012 election season. — eds Earlier this week, Florida evangelical Christian leader John Stemberger endorsed Rick Perry’s campaign for GOP p…

Touch Me, Man, I’m Healed, I’m Straight

By Ted Cox

…homosexuality. In 2007, Wyler addressed a group of ex-gay Mormons in Salt Lake City. He said that as part of his healing work, he “found a men’s experiential healing retreat—and discovered a connection to men unlike anything I had ever known before. For the first time in my life, I really felt like a man among men—like I really belonged.” That retreat was the Mankind Project’s all-male New Warrior Training Adventure, which as the Houston Press re…

The Year in Mormons: Top 7 Stories of 2012

By Joanna Brooks

…ality” groups, with the largest contingent of 300–400 taking part in May’s Salt Lake City LGBT Pride Parade. (RD covered the movement here and here and here and here.) 6. Election-year media scrutiny discloses lingering LDS racism, prompting official statement from the LDS Church. Racist comments defending the LDS Church’s century-long ban on black priesthood ordination by BYU religion professor Randy Bott appear in the Washington Post, prompting…