Does Mormonism Encourage LDS People to Lie? Post by Joanna Brooks

August 8, 2012

• Religion Dispatches
• Newsweek/Daily Beast reporter Jamie Reno published a provocative interview this week with Sue Emmett, a direct descendent of Brigham Young and a former LDS Church member, that plumbs controversial aspects of Mormon faith and culture, including the status of women in the faith and a tendency among some Mormons to manage the way they speak with non-Mormons about complicated aspects of our history and religious practice.

Confessions of an Ex-Mormon by Walter Kirn in the The New Republic July 13, 2012

A personal history of America’s most misunderstood religion.

The New Republic

Walter Kirn

July 13, 2012

I DON’T REMEMBER the missionaries’ names, only that one was blond and one was dark, one was from Oregon and one was from Utah. They arrived at our house on secondhand bicycles carrying bundles of inspirational literature. They smelled, I remember, of witch hazel and toothpaste. The blond one, whose hair had a complicated wave in it and whose body was shaped like a hay bale, broad and square, wiped his feet with vigor on our doormat and complimented my mother on our house, a one-story, ranch-style affair in central Phoenix that never fully cooled off during the night and had scorpions and black widow spiders in the walls. The boys—because that’s how they looked to me that evening, when I was 13 and my brother was eleven and my parents were in their mid-thirties—shook hands with us and sat down in the living room, where my mother had set out lemonade and cookies and my father had turned off the television so we could talk. They smiled at us. They smiled with their whole faces. Then they asked, softly, politely, if we could pray.

Democrats Have Bigger Anti-Mormon Problem in Election Than GOP Has by Peter Beinart Apr 23, 2012

Polls show 27 percent of Democrats would not vote for a Mormon, versus 18 percent of Republicans. There are votes in anti-Mormonism, but the Obama campaign must resist any temptation to play on it.

 It’s important that Barack Obama wins this election, but for the country’s sake, it’s important that Mormonism not lose.

Mitt Romney’s nomination marks milestone for Mormon faith

The Washington Post
By Sandhya Somashekhar and Jason Horowitz,
May 29, 2012
America quietly observed a major milestone in its history Tuesday when Mitt Romney became the first Mormon presidential nominee of a major political party.

Some background videos on Mormonism as a means of understanding their worldview

What Mormons Really Believe

The methodology for bypassing the mind in Mormonism.

Burning in the bosom

It is quite common for people who are quite intelligent to succumb to the Mormon missionary who uses this particular technique. Some of the missionaries who use it are unaware of its deeply anti intellectual character it is so embedded in their mind.