Bridge of Reason

The Salt Lake Tribune has launched a "Mormon of the Year" contest in which, uniquely, readers are asked to nominate their favourites. For obvious reasons they exclude prophets and apostles but otherwise the field is wide open. Interestingly enough, there is also a contest proposed for "Gentile of the Year ": The Mormon blog bycommonconsent.com has proposed naming the Gentile of the Year, or the non-Mormon who had the greatest impact (good or bad) on Mormonism in 2008. Candidates nominated by Ronan James Head, a British Mormon, include: » Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, whose anti-Romney remarks irked many Mormons » Catholic Archbishop George Niederauer, who got the Mormons involved in Proposition 8 » The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, whose raid on the YFZ ranch in Texas kept Mormon polygamy in the spotlight. "As with Mormon of the Year, I'm fair depressed that non-American names do not readily spring to mind," Head writes on the blog...