Each week, it seems that someone in the mainstream press writes something about the church that is annoying or hurtful or misinformed or lazy. Recently, there were the snarky tweets about LDS beliefs from an editor at Salon.com and a columnist at the New York Times — both of whom eventually apologized.
Then there is a blog post by a baptized, but not practicing, Latter-day Saint, in GQ magazine online that’s too cute by half. The article is filled with stereotypes — hurtful and otherwise — of Latter-day Saints, of Southerners and of Evangelical Christians.