Mormon-bashing continues to be alive and well.

How's this for a headline (in strange, fractured, white-on-black graphics)? "Latterday Taint: How Glenn Beck is Driven by Mormonism."

In this Oct. 21 article in the Boise Weekly, a Boston writer named Adam Reilly makes a bogus claim. He connects Fox commentator Glenn Beck's political views and Beck's membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Reilly declares that Beck's anti-communist, mean-spirited, off-the-wall rhetoric (like, President Obama has a deep hatred of white people) is rooted in his Mormon faith.

The article itself is hardly worth arguing against. It is inconsistent and confusing. Reilly "proves" his point by showing that Beck embodies two Mormon-related sources": Ezra Taft Benson, a committed Cold War anti-communist from the Eisenhower administration (who much later became LDS President); and a conspiracy theorist named Skousen, from whom the Mormon church officially distanced itself in 1979.

The problem is, this sort of article just keeps on encouraging the license so many people seem to feel to take potshots at the LDS Church.

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