Mormon scholar: "Glenn Beck doesn't speak for the Mormons I know"
March 19, 2010 5:31 pm ET by Media Matters staff
From mormon scholar Joanna Brooks' March 19 post on The Huffington Post titled, "'Bringing the Hammer Down': Glenn Beck Doesn't Speak For The Mormons I Know":
Glenn Beck is a Mormon. So am I. During the nineteenth century, my Mormon ancestors crossed the plains to live their faith without fear of attack from the mobs that had hounded them out of Missouri and Illinois.
Watching Glenn Beck threaten to "bring the hammer down" on another person of faith makes my stomach turn.
I could cite a host of scriptures from the Bible and the Book of Mormon about how Beck's attack on Jim Wallis is not in keeping with faith-based values.
Suffice it to say, Glenn Beck does not speak for the Mormons I know.
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Most Mormons I know have quite a bit in common with Reverend Jim Wallis, who has dedicated a life and a career to the service of others.
By contrast, Glenn Beck has devoted his life and career to expanding the media footprint of Glenn Beck.
He's done whatever it's taken: from cavorting with chimpanzees as a "morning zoo" shock jock to threatening to "bring the hammer down" on people of good will like Jim Wallis.
Who knows what kind of ugliness Glenn Beck will trot out when he "brings the hammer down" on Jim Wallis next week. As a Mormon woman, I agree with my Presbyterian friend in Atlanta: Beck has gone too far.
Previously:
And as I said in another thread, Glenn Beck is starting to alienate so many groups that evetually he'll just declare himself unique...sui generis.
And then he'll buy land in the desert, build a complex with dormitories and an assembly hall and start his own cult. Actually, not that far-fetched when you think about where he's going with all this...
She's summed up Beck perfectly. I have no doubt he's thoroughly enjoying everything he's stirred up, for and against him.