Last night on Jimmy Fallon comedian Chris Rock went on a short tirade against Mitt Romney and Mormonism. Asked by Fallon about the presidential election, Rock responded, ”I just heard this the other day: The Mormons, Mitt Romney’s crew, they believed black people were the devil ’til 1978! I’m not making this up!” Afterward Fallon appears visibly uncomfortable by Rock’s […]

By Trevor Antley. “The Mormon moment is now.” That was the headline in the Washington Post’s religion & faith section yesterday. Members of the  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, colloquially called “Mormons” and “the Mormon church,” know it’s true. We no longer do a double-take when we hear someone say “Mormon” on TV. We shrug off the […]

By Trevor Antley. Prominent Florida pastor and Rick Santorum supporter Rev. O’Neal Dozier sent a press release today demanding that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney renounce his “racist Mormon religion.” Romney is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly called the Mormon or LDS Church. Dozier and other yet-to-be-named black religious […]

By Trevor Antley. After an uproar this week over allegedly-racist remarks made by popular BYU religion professor Randy Bott, a coalition of BYU students known as the Provo Peace Forum are planning ways to protest. The students are careful to emphasize that they are not protesting Professor Bott or his comments directly, but rather that their […]

By Trevor Antley. After being quoted in a Washington Post article regarding the LDS Church’s evolving positions on race, popular BYU religion professor and LDS author Randy Bott has been accused of making racist remarks while defending the LDS Church’s historical ban on blacks from the church’s priesthood. On Tuesday the story began to go viral on […]