Tens of thousands of Mormons are signing an online petition to show their outrage over the tone of The New York Times’ recent obituary for LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson.
It’s not necessarily that the story was inaccurate. Petition launcher Nathan Cunningham, a Mormon who lives in Sparks, Nev., just saw it as biased politically and religiously.
“Instead of highlighting the positive aspects of his life, or a neutral statement about the facts of his life,” the petition declared, “they decided to attack and disparage his character and used his obituary as a political statement against him and the [LDS Church] as a whole and tweeted a click-bait headline to attack even further.