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May 24, 2012

Mormons Meet the Press

Joanna Brooks, Religion Dispatches

It’s difficult to escape the sense that something is still missing from press coverage of Romney’s Mormonism.

Witness the Sunday New York Times above-the-fold front page article “Romney’s Faith, Silent but Deep” by Jodi Kantor, a long story that presents the candidate’s Mormonism as rules-oriented, wholesome, and prayerful.

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