I sat in the back of the lecture hall, only mildly interested in what I suspected was about to be a long-winded monologue on a subject that held little relevance to me personally. If I remember correctly, it was a guest speaker in a career series course I was taking at BYU. The class emphasis was careers for political scientists like me who haven't ever considered how to use our unusual affinity for thinking to actual make a living. Or maybe I just needed an easy A -- calculating the benefit of maintaining my full-ride scholarship and avoiding student debt. No matter the reason, I had subjected myself to a class of lectures. Again if I remember right, the guest was a political theorist. But what surprised me, was the direction he took. He had hardly even began the discourse when suddenly, he started talking about Mormons. This isn't entirely unusual. When visiting BYU, speakers often like to comment on some sort of interaction they've had with Mormons in the past--a