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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Books This Week in the Book Section

Posted by Paul Constant on Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:12 PM

This week in The Stranger's book section, Dominic Holden invites some Mormons over and talks about the Book of Mormon.

The Book of Mormon is available for free, and fleets of dashing young men commit up to three years of their lives to delivering it. So if you want retribution for the Mormon-funded Proposition 8—the bigoted measure that banned same-sex marriage in California—requesting a copy is one way to burn some Latter-day dough. If the government won't tax the church's pyramid tithing PAC, at least you can tax its resources.

At Mormon.org, anyone can sign up for a free Book of Mormon. I thought they'd mail me a copy. But when I filled out the form, up popped this message: "Thank you for requesting the Book of Mormon from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You should be contacted by missionaries in a few days."

Actual missionaries? It sounded too good to be true.

Oh, but it wasn't too good to be true. It happened. I'm always pleased to get Dominic in the books section, and this is a great story about the hottest little book delivery service to hit Seattle since Amazon.com. You should read the whole thing. And don't forget to make some time to read the comments: Angry Mormons a-plenty!