Secret heresy

I had great hope that this long piece would educate me about the doctrines of Mormonism, but ... not so much. Feldman keeps sneaking up on its heterodoxies and then anticlimactically not describing them.

Of course, the well-known history of Mormon polygamy is there, as well as the claim that God himself was once a man (though Feldman's assertion that Jesus living as a man is also heretical is odd). After that, not much. What about planetary heavens for Saints who achieve divinity? What about the central enforcement of Mormon orthodoxy? What about the trinity? (Let Robin Givhan worry about saintly vestments.)

All these are mentioned or alluded to but none are detailed. Instead, Feldman begs off weakly:

Faced with the allegation that they do not believe in the same God as ordinary Protestants, or that their beliefs are not truly Christian, Mormons find themselves in an extraordinarily awkward position. They cannot defend themselves by expressly explaining their own theology, because, taken from the standpoint of orthodox Protestantism in America today, it is in fact heterodox.

The heresy is still secret.

And if Feldman writes "soft bigotry" one more time, he should have to move his HLS office out onto the sidewalk.