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  response to  Daniel Brook's post The Mormons Are Coming!

  Good Journalism???

  I was very disappointed in the quality of the journalism in this particular article. I would like to think that readers of Good magazine, including myself, are not the kind of readers that like to be spoonfed whatever information seems interesting and is also easy for them to accept. I can understand that there are many right now that would prefer that Mitt Romney not become president. However, I take issue with misleading people about the Mormon faith to further that agenda. Being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, I have no intention of voting for Mr. Romney because he is a Mormon. On the other hand, I would hope that he would not be vilified just because he is Mormon. There were some things that Mr. Brook said that were mere misrepresentations, but there were many more things which were blatantly false (i.e., there is no "church" policy prohibiting the use of birth control --) It was implicit throughout the entire article that Mr. Brooks viewed individual Mormons as misled themselves -- brainwashed even. It seemed a very thinly veiled attempted to make Mormons appear very ignorant automatons. As a thinking person, and a woman, I find this portrayal of the church very unenlightened. As an aside, I also agree with Ophiolite (who seemed to think that this was "good press" for the Mormon church), that a religion which promised many wonderful things to men, but not to women would not be worth talking about. Fortunately, the Mormon church and its message of hope are worth talking about, if you have your facts straight.

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  Commented on August 23, 2007 by - coccinelle