A high-ranking leader of the LDS church, a 42-year old father of six, was murded in cold blood yesterday in California. The motives of the murderer, who may have suffered from mental illness and may have been a former church member, don’t seem yet to be clearly established. Very sad, no matter how or why it happened. One amazing thing, to me, however, is that the New York Times story on the murder says … absolutely nothing. No coverage of it all, as far as I can tell. Not a word. Like it didn’t happen.
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That’s odd. I checked three newspaper websites (St. Paul, Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Post) and each has some coverage of the story.
And while not trying to minimize the tragedy in any way, Sannar was a lay bishop, which is not equivalent to the position of bishop within the Roman Catholic Church or the Episcopal Church, for instance.
Just imagine if this were a (gay rights activist, prominent black democrat, notable mullah) they’d be falling all over themselves to jump to premature (homophobic, racist, islamophobic) conclusions.
Mormons can’t get no love.
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