Mormon News Report > Top Stories January 15: Bundy-Style Mormonism

" - ism" was one of Google's chosen words for 2015. 
The attention of your MesaZona blogger was recently re-directed from The New Urban DTMesa while receiving newsfeeds and news alerts and broadcast and streaming news for the last 14 days about a heavily-weaponized group taking over a property in Oregon. They've been called by mainstream media "right-wing domestic terrorists", "armed terrorists hijacking public lands", and "deluded nuts" among another things.

However, rarely brought up in world and national news broadcasts is that Clive and Ammon Bundy are disciples in the Mormon religion.
Is this another example of religions running wild with followers taking to the extreme fringes? 
[Image to the right is Ammon Bundy giving a talk at a public charter school here in Mesa last year.]
Mormons behaving badly?
Perhaps to counter-act any possible negative publicity, the LDS church is engaging in a series of internal conversations starting with a radio interview broadcast three days ago.
Listen . . . here's the link > KUER/bundy-style-Mormonism
Well worth the time 52.39
One commentator Zeke had this to say: The LDS Church has a huge problem with bitter, hateful anti-government mormons running amok.
Another commentator Tsuji wrote this: I am a Mormon and do not support the Bundy's one bit, but I disagree with your characterization.
They are deluded nuts but they think they are making a political statement . . . The Feds are wisely trying to avoid escalation.
And another johninnv wrote this: Just like in Bunkerville. The local elected Mormon leaders of the region did NOT ever say a word against what 'ol pappy Cliven and offspring were doing. Not once. Not a Bishop, nor a take President, nor the several Mormons in elected leadership positions. NOPE - and many of them indicated that they supported Bundy positions. The Mormon church needs to get over its long cultivated hatred of the United States Government.

Bundy-style Mormonism

By Doug Fabrizio • Jan 14, 2016

Thursday we’re asking if the occupation of a federal office in Oregon is a Mormon enterprise, and if so, what kind of Mormonism? The Bundy brothers leading the group are LDS, and they use Mormon theology to talk about motives and dealing with “tyranny.” The Church has condemned the tactics, and while the Bundys’ views aren’t mainstream, historian Patrick Mason says they didn’t come out of thin air. He and others join us to talk about the groups’ politics and faith in relation to Mormon orthodoxy.