Will questions range across the Christian ethics continuum?
When political personalities emerge in the Media "flavor of the month", why don't more questions get asked than just "Do you believe that wives must be submissive to their husband like you were?" Could someone ask about Wars and Famines and Religious tolerance - dialogue and not just about the quirky side of things like Mormon "underwear" ?
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Lisa Miller :
One of the reasons religion is such a tantalizing subject for media is the weird factor. The underwear. The speaking in tongues. The prophetic "damning America" preacher. The snake handlers and the rapture and all that. In my experience, most of that stuff is very through the looking glass. It looks very weird to outsiders and not at all weird to insiders and I urge journalists caution not to make too much of all of it -- without context, history, etc. After all, who's to say what's wierder? That Joseph Smith talked to an Angel named Moroni? Or that Moses saw a bush on fire that didn't burn? And heard a voice?
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