Last week the media engaged in silliness by surmising that a disaffected LDS blogger, David Twede, was facing a church disciplinary council supposedly because he had criticized fellow Mormon, Mitt Romney, the Republican Party’s presidential candidate. The Daily Beast breathlessly headlined that the Mormons want to excommunicate a “Romney critic.”
Even the Standard-Examiner has a misleading headline in our wire story, “Mormon writer says he faces excommunication for criticizing Romney.” Now there’s no doubt that my church has a distressing record in the past with punishing dissent. The most recent example was 1993. It still irks me that a faithful member such as Lavinia Fielding Anderson was excommunicated. She deserves to be reinstated and apologized to. But David Twede, who I do have sympathy for, is not facing church disciplinary action, and potential excommunication, because he is critical of Mitt Romney.
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