Glenn Beck, a Latter-day Saint who has a national radio program in addition to his slot on CNN Headline News, is scheduled to be in Salt Lake City on May 19 to perform "stand-up comedy with a message" at Kingsbury Hall.

Asked if Sharpton would be in Salt Lake City at the same time, a spokesman for Beck answered, "maybe." Sharpton promised Beck on Thursday's program that he would return to talk about his meeting with LDS Church officials.

Meanwhile, on the Web site salon.com, Alex Koppelman, who attended the debate at which Sharpton was speaking earlier this week, writes that he did not at that time interpret Sharpton's comments to be bigoted. Atheist author Christopher Hitchens had been downplaying the role of religion in the civil rights movement, Koppelman said, and Sharpton was countering that view.

In a later conversation, Sharpton told Koppelman, "I wasn't saying that Mormons didn't believe in God, I was saying that we weren't going to have to rely on atheists" to defeat Romney.

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