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Would John F. Kennedy have supported a Mormon president?
Recently, CBS News did a story on the frontliners for the 2012 presidential candidates. Each person mentioned was given a list of campaign strengths and weaknesses. Two of the names mentioned have Utah connections and are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Jon Huntsman Jr. and Mitt Romney. Amid claims that other candidates weaknesses included lack of fundraising power, name recognition and moral issues, CBS News cited belonging to the LDS faith as a weakness for both Huntsman and Romney. And CBS News is not alone in its views. Other members of the media have pointed out that Huntsman and Romney’s religion could be a major drawback in their candidacies.
NY Times: Romney’s Mormon story
There's an interesting dilemma facing the filmmakers who are presumably hard at work, in some well-hidden editing room, on the biographical movie that will play just before Mitt Romney accepts his party’s nomination: What should the movie say about Romney’s Mormonism?So far, Romney has said very little about his faith in this campaign, which is clearly how he likes it. Indeed, his campaign has pushed back vigorously against even innocuous press coverage of Mormon folkways and beliefs, on the theory that trying to explain a much-distrusted, much-misunderstood religion could only distract from the economic message.
Latter-day Saint Life
25 Types of Prayers to Try
How Many Kinds of Prayer are There?
Mormon Family Featured on Boston's WCVB Newscast Talking about True Success
The Thomas family from Belmont, Mass., was recently featured because of their LDS faith in a newscast done by WCVB.
Church asks Mormons: Which websites, writers do you read?
The LDS Church is surveying its members about their readership of key websites and Mormon writers, a move that reflects the faith’s growing interest in managing its public image as two Mormon candidates make headlines pursuing the White House. Church officials confirmed this week that the survey on a range of social, political and doctrinal matters — including the trustworthiness of specific journalists — is partly intended to gauge how and where Latter-day Saints get their information on LDS-related issues.
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Famous Latter-day Saints
5 Mormon Politicians You Want To Know About
Latter-day Saints around the world participate in the political process, whether as voters or as legislators. “We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulesr, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law” (12th Article of Faith).
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Videos
New "I'm a Mormon" Video Focuses on the Pains of Unemployment for Ukrainian Family
For "I'm a Mormon" messages with surprising twists or surprising lessonsto learn or that share the stories of 5 famous musicians, check out our other stories.
Latter-day Saint Life
What I Learned from My Mission in Zimbabwe
When Justin Mozina was growing up in Crestview, he was not serious enough about preparing to go on a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints mission.
Latino Mormons speaking out against Romney over immigration issue
When Honduran-born Antonella Cecilia Packard converted to the Mormon Faith 20 years ago, she said it was like "coming home." The Catholic-educated Packard, who grew up in "the middle of Mayan ruins," appreciated the faith's strong sense of family and conservative values. She also saw her own history in the Book of Mormon with stories of migrations, tragedies and triumphs of a people many Mormons believe are the ancestors of some present-day Latinos.
A Lutheran bishop's perspective on Mormon baptism for the dead
The Latter-day Saint practice of vicarious baptism on behalf of the dead is once again a focus of controversy. In the past few weeks, it's been portrayed in the news media and on the web as unbiblical, ghoulish, bizarre, shameful, vicious, anti-Semitic, immoral, hateful, an exercise in "black magic" and (by some extremists) possibly even illegal. A national television commentator recently named President Thomas S. Monson among "the worst people in the world" for presiding over the practice. It's high time for the view of a very respected non-Mormon scholar to be heard above the noise.