Editor’s note: This article from commentator Paul Mero is a response to Taylor G. Petrey’s recent piece “The failures of Mormon conservativism.” These opinion articles are part of an ongoing Deseret News opinion series exploring ideas and issues at the intersection of faith and thought.
Taylor G. Petrey is a progressive provocateur who dares tell Latter-day Saints what to believe about politics, sex, and gender. Petrey tempts members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to think that it’s time for “a revitalization of Mormonism’s past and potential.”
Evidently, we, conservative Latter-day Saints, betray our “past and potential,” which includes an earlier era when we were “more politically diverse.”
Petrey gets lots of things wrong.
