"Mitt Romney’s defeat appears to close out a years-long 'Mormon moment,' a period of national fascination with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," the article said. "But prominent Mormons and religion experts say Mormons should be heartened that Romney’s candidacy appeared to help mainstream the relatively young faith."
However, in his Post article, Otterson sees the "real emergence of American Mormons, with all of their distinctiveness, into the rich mosaic of American religious life" as something historians will look back on and see as still just getting under way in 2012.
Mandy Morgan is an enterprise intern for the Deseret News, reporting on values in the media. She is a true-blue Aggie, studying journalism and political science at Utah State University, and hails from Highland, Utah.
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When did the LDS church seek to gain the praise of man? The Mormon Moment isn't a presidential campaign, it's the good deeds done by members all over the world--done for the simple fact that it is the right thing to do, not done to gain More..
I think Mormons (as any demographic) need to look past the fact that a Presidential candidate is "one of them" and focus on the man himself. I don't feel Romney was a very good candidate because of his flip-flops, his disparagement of More..
There never was a "Mormon Event." It is sad that Latter-day Saints would consider a failed political campaign the most significant contribution to world history. Can't you do better than that?