Just as they hoped, Businesweek’s cringeworthy cover illustration for Caroline Winter’s story “How the Mormons Make Money” generated lots of buzz today, especially among Mormons sensitive to the mocking depiction of a foundational moment in Mormon history.
As Peggy Fletcher Stack of the Salt Lake Tribune describes:
It features an illustration of John the Baptist with his hands on the heads of LDS founder Joseph Smith and his assistant, Oliver Cowdery, and a quote bubble which reads: “And thou shalt build a shopping mall, own stock in Burger King and open a Polynesian theme park in Hawaii that shall be largely exempt from the frustrations of tax...”
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