A recent op-ed denying that The Tribune is neither anti-Mormon or anti-Republican may largely explain The Trib’s dwindling readership. Denying what seems so obvious to many of your subscribers seems quite disingenuous. As a “yellow-dog” Democrat, gay man and Mormon, not necessarily in that order, it has become increasingly difficult to justify renewing my 10-year-long subscription due to what has become predictable, tedious and unfair attacks on the LDS Church. (Politics and politicians have always been fair game. That’s the way democracy works.)
What really rankles is that it now appears to be your policy to ferret out every last dissident member of the LDS Church and give them precious front-page coverage. Religious affiliation is purely voluntary, even in Utah, and I, for one, don’t want to read every turgid tale of religious disaffection by my coreligionists or say, Catholics, Baptists or Rastafarians or off-shoots thereof.
And, devoting front-page space to an account of an uncorroborated sexual assault charge allegedly involving an LDS official 35 years ago, a case of “she said, he said,” was just plain mischievous.
Rodney Johnson, Farmington
