Mormons

The making of Glenn Beck The making of Glenn Beck

His roots, from the alleged suicide of his mom to Top 40 radio to the birth of the morning zoo. Part 1 of 3
By Alexander Zaitchik Sep 21, 2009

  • New Yorkers protest Mormon campaign against gay marriage

    A surprisingly large crowd gathered outside Manhattan's Mormon Temple to protest church members' activity in support of California's gay-marriage ban.
    By Gabriel Winant November 13, 2008

  • Proposition 8 made me quit the Mormon church

    I have been a Mormon my whole life. But after the church's campaign of hatred to ban gay marriage, I finally renounced my membership.
    By Jodi Mardesich November 13, 2008

  • I'm a gay married Mormon in the closet

    My wife and I thought we could make it work but we're desperately unhappy.
    By Cary Tennis October 28, 2008

  • Mitt Romney's Mormon detour

    Romney, whose religion may have hurt his chances at the Republican nomination, discreetly mourns his church's president and "prophet" at a Utah funeral as his own campaign's vital signs ebb.
    By Mike Madden February 3, 2008

  • Romney and Huckabee's religious intolerance

    Nonbelievers have long been more tolerant of believers in office than the other way around.
    By Joe Conason December 7, 2007

  • "I do not define my candidacy by my religion"

    Mitt Romney delivers a speech designed to reassure voters about his Mormonism. Read it here.
    December 6, 2007

  • This is not Romney's Kennedy moment

    Mitt Romney is caught between Mormonism and a hard place -- the fundamentalist Christian base of the modern GOP. And it's partly his own fault.
    By Andrew O'Hehir December 6, 2007

  • Warren Jeffs found guilty

    The Mormon sect leader is convicted of rape as an accomplice, for his role in the non-consensual marriage of a 14-year-old girl to her 19-year-old cousin.
    By Page Rockwell September 25, 2007

  • I Like to Watch

    What's more American than cocker spaniels, doomed marriages and David E. Kelley? Plus: "Battlestar's" dark turn.
    By Heather Havrilesky March 11, 2007

  • Latter-day sinners?

    Three new books -- including Jon Krakauer's latest -- take a look at some dark moments in the history of Mormonism and the violent effects of sexually rooted religious hysteria.
    By Laura Miller July 26, 2003

  • The Church of Latter-day constraints

    A former Mormon says that the sheltered environment of Elizabeth Smart's religion might explain why she didn't run from her captors.
    By Ian R. Williams March 18, 2003

  • Censorship and the massive Mormon marketing scheme

    The gutless Denver Post criticized columnist Woody Paige and deleted his story after he bashed Mormons and Utah. But hating everybody is his shtick!
    By Allen Barra February 27, 2002

  • Faith in America

    What does religion mean now? Is it a mystical experience, a collection of social protocols or just common sense?
    By Amy Standen November 20, 2000

  • Mormon marriage manual a bestseller

    A sex book for Latter-day Saints is flying off the shelves.
    By Jack Boulware August 3, 2000

  • My favorite author, my worst interview

    I worshipped militaristic Mormon science-fiction writer Orson Scott Card -- until we met.
    By Donna Minkowitz February 3, 2000

  • Letters to the Editor

    You think the media's money fixation is new? Plus: Remembering George C. Scott; what does Salon have against organized religion?
    Letters to the Editor October 11, 1999
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