Are Mormons being singled out for religious persecution, as some members claim? These people are deeply attuned to (and hurt by) unflattering portrayals of our religion on the small screen, and ...

The Mormons begins with the turbulent early history of the Mormon faith, ... "The persecution of the Mormons was officially sanctioned by at least two different state governments," says Dallin ...

From Salt Lake City, where the Mormons arrived after a 1,300-mile exodus from Illinois in 1846, Church of Latter-day Saints President Gordon B. Hinckley noted the context in which the church has ...

And a persecution complex helps no one. ... Mormons today would evidently fare better than, say, an atheist or Muslim candidate, but the remarkably persistent numbers since 1967 are telling.

Religious persecution "Mormons as a group has deeply ingrained within their psyche that they are a religious minority that has experienced persecution in the not-distant past," said David Campbell ...

The persecution and “othering” that Mormons suffered during their recent first century probably sensitizes them more than, say, white Alabama Baptists, to the persecution of minorities.

>> NARRATOR: A powerful sense of persecution has shaped Mormon history. Most Americans don't even know about the dark days that haunt Mormons still today. >> Our people knew hate.

To escape persecution, the group began moving west -- and kept going. In 1847, a small group led by Brigham Young reached the valley of the Great Salt Lake, and over the next 20 years about 80,000 ...

If Mormons are being persecuted on television, then they’re in good company. Religion in general is being carefully scrutinized, especially its more conservative expressions.

One hundred fifty years ago, a glorious September morning in the Utah mountains morphed into Mormonism's darkest hour when a skittish militia opened fire on a wagon train, leaving more than 120 ...

And in all of these places, the pilgrims are reminded that “the world” rejected Mormonism, that the Mormons’ stays in New York and in Nauvoo were cut short because of anti-Mormon persecution.