The brawl between Governor Mitt Romney and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid—an open flouting of the fall-into-line conventions of Mormon masculinity—is taking center stage during these dog days of Campaign 2012, underscoring the generally cranky mood of this campaign (now dubbed Death Race 2012 by one media outlet) and disguising its real poverty: principled and productive dialogue on the fairly intractable economic transition our nation is now facing.
While the Mormon men folk are brawling in public, it’s worth noting that this summer has seen a quiet building among Mormon women of a new and unprecedentedly broad conversation about gender inequality in the LDS Church.
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