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...Olympic games always foster cultural understanding one way or another. This year in addition to maudlin background video pieces on NBC, the cross-cultural sharing extends to the Church of the Latter Day Saints. Utah has beautiful mountains for skiing and is 63 percent Mormon. So TV viewers everywhere, or at least TV viewers captivated by the new sport of “skeleton” racing, have found not only top-notch winter athletes in Salt Lake City, but also glimpse at the culture of the clean-living, fast-growing Mormon religion. This juxtaposition of Mormonism, a relatively unassimilated...
...Anderson's main battle is with the conservative Republican establishment of the state, he has not missed the calls for greater tolerance from the leadership of the Mormon church. "This is a very important transitional time," he says. "Now we need the same opening from the other side--those in the minority can exercise the same kind of bigotry as they have complained about suffering themselves...
...plot comes back to the Mormon church. It is impossible to know what kind of debates are going on inside the church, and whether Hinckley's drive for greater openness will be maintained by the next president...
...There is a strong sense in Utah of the inside [the Mormon faith] and the outside," says the writer Tempest Williams...
While the guard held the flag still in the spotlight, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sang “The Star-Spangled Banner.” A Black Hawk helicopter—part of a record $310 million Olympic security plan—hovered overhead...