why me wrote:The media needs a story but the story has not gotten them very far. No one cares about past policies..people care more about current policies. This is why there is no sensationalism about it. Mormons have been in national government for years even during the priesthood ban. No one cared.
This is a non-issue for most people. However the exmormon crowd wants to make it an issue because they have a chip on their shoulder. But this issue is dead in the media....
The article in question wasn't sensationalistic. Mormon attitudes about race are interesting, and somebody wrote a fair and insightful article about it. Non-Mormons read it and walked away with a better understanding of how various Mormons deal with the baggage their church carries on the issue.
The people who went ballistic are the Mormons themselves. They weren’t upset at the non-Mormons who wrote and published the article—they were upset at other Mormons! A respected BYU professor publically speculated the kind of thing that Mormons are only supposed to speculate about privately. The horror! The article was a good article. But the reason this issue exploded is because the way Mormons reacted. Their reaction exposed their festering thoughts and feelings that hide behind the façade of “we don’t know with complete clarity…”