Big winner is a loser

Ken Jennings has gotten national attention as a big winner on the game show Jeopardy. It was made known early that he was a "Mormon" and from Utah. I was personally quite upset when — during an appearance on David Letterman while giving the nightly top 10, Jennings used a profane three-letter word as part of a punch line. Put in this position he could have come through for the home team by refusing to say this expletive. He should have thought twice before jeopardizing the image of the state and respectively his church to a national audience.

Matthew R. Erickson

West Jordan