Modern Mormonism Could Have Been Intellectually and Liberally Minded
5 min readJun 21, 2020
Back before Utah became perhaps the most Republican- and conservative-leaning state in the Union that it is today, Mormons were outsiders, aliens, non-American. They lived within a largely theocratic order in the Intermountain West, almost always at odds with Americans and the federal government that continually tried to crush its peculiar and “threatening” lifestyle.
