“Are Mormons villains, or just people with a different story about their identity?”

Jacob Hess suggests a way to help Latter-day Saints and their critics get beyond the hateful, polarizing rhetoric that has ensued in the wake of the Church’s policy explanation on homosexual marriages and children being raised in homosexual homes:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/jacob-hess/are-mormons-villains-or-just-people-with-different-story-about-their-ident

I’m not optimistic — demonizing and hating those with whom one disagrees seems to offer a perverse sort of gratification in all too many cases — but I like this article.