Boston Globe: A Mormon president? I don’t think so
The Boston Globe, which is probably one of the most anti-Mitt Romney, anti-Mormon papers in the United States has published this ridiculous article hit piece in their continued campaign against the LDS Church and Mitt Romney. Here are a couple of gems:
“I have been watching the first two hours of a forthcoming WGBH-produced, four-hour special ‘The Mormons,’ slated to air nationwide on PBS April 30 and May 1. (The second half is still being edited.) It’s vintage public broadcasting, plodding at times — if I see another covered wagon heading for Zion, I’ll get motion sickness…”
and…
“On camera, Yale archaeologist Michael Coe calls Smith a ’shaman,’ which is probably accurate but not a great quote for Mormons.”
and…
“‘The Mormons’ even tackles the ultimate red herring, “celestial marriage,” Joseph Smith’s term for polygamy. The church has gone to great pains to promulgate prophet Wilford Woodruff’s 1890 declaration condemning polygamy, deemed to have superseded Smith’s earlier, contrary revelation. HBO, which continues to broadcast “Big Love,” a series about a polygamist who lives outside Salt Lake City, apparently didn’t get the memo.
Nor did PBS. ‘The Mormons’ estimates that 30,000 to 60,000 fundamentalist believers practice polygamy. Whitney has footage of 11 happy children passing plates around the dinner table, with three mothers and a father in attendance. Heather has three Mommies! Sorry, I couldn’t resist.”
Finally….
“What does it all mean? PBS claims it has 75 million viewers a week. Let’s say one-tenth — no, one-twentieth — of that audience watches ‘The Mormons.’ That’s almost 4 million men and women who will know more about the Mormon faith than Romney might wish them to know. It’s bad math for the Mittster.”
Please don’t hesitate to tell columnist Alex Beam (that’s beam “at” globe dotcom) what you think of this ridiculous piece of “journalism”.
Evidence is everything. I have seen much evidence to support the validity of this article. LDS faithful call it ridiculous, but never provide evidence to prove it false. What are non-Mormons supposed to believe?
I fully understand the concept of not addressing things that are not useful to LDS believers. However, to dismiss evidence about Smith and polygamy, church history etc etc etc does not convince non-believers. Non-Mormon’s think dismissing evidence is ridiculous -you think the evidence is ridiculous.
I think agreeing to disagree on issues like this would be the Christian response, not to call each other derogatory names? Then maybe we could have a civil discussion about how important evidence is.
Left by Deb on 02/17/2008