I wonder if anti-LDS hate is ramping up once again in America. We have two recent signs it is: the BYU-Colorado football game chants (“F*** you, Mormons”); and the Michigan LDS killings and chapel fire.
Why are these portents of what is to come? Because every other kind of hate is running rampant across America now, as well. We clearly have partisan political party hatred where one side calls the other “lunatics” and sends the military to cities to curb their enthusiasm.
We have anti-Latino harassment, arrests, and deportations carried out by the Department of Homeland Security, whose name might perhaps more aptly be called the “Department of White People Security.” The current administration is worried that brown-skin Americans will become the largest ethnic group in America in a decade or so if deportations are not expedited like crazy.
We have Arab-Muslim students and professors being harassed, arrested, or deported mainly because they are not Christian or Jewish enough or light-skinned enough to be truly American.
Immigrant Latinos are getting a double dose of hate because they are both brown-skinned and Catholic in Protestant America.
It will be an easy thing to add “Mormons” onto the list of hateable human beings. Already, the consequences for anti-LDS bigotry are being soft-shoed. The government fined Columbia $200 million and Harvard $500 million for subtle antisemitism. However, the Big 12 Conference fined the University of Colorado $50,000 for overt anti-LDS bigotry. Seem fair to you?
Kimball Shinkoskey
Woods Cross, UT
