In a recent radio interview with Iron Sharpens Iron, Latayne C. Scott, former Mormon and author of The Mormon Mirage, discussed her book and the decision by the LDS church to elect Joseph Sitati, a black African, to the First Quorum of Seventy. This election is controversial in light Mormonism’s history of doctrinal racism as clearly taught in The Book of Mormon.

Listen to the interview here. Read the related article here.

Three decades after leaving the Mormon faith, Latayne C. Scott looks back to her original journey out of Mormonism and the reasons why she left in the third edition of her book The Mormon Mirage: A Former Member looks at the Mormon Church Today.

Technorati tags: racism, The Mormon Mirage, LDS, Mormonism, Latayne C. Scott, Joseph Sitati, Zondervan