‘Mormon Land’: A deeper look at #DezNat tweeters who they are, what they want, and why people should, or should not, fear them
Researcher notes that they don’t all share the same views, save for their zeal in defending the LDS Church, but she worries some of violent words could turn into actions.
A screenshot of a Twitter post under the hashtag #DezNat, dated Feb. 5, 2020.
| Feb. 3, 2021, 9:03 p.m.
In 2018, John Paul Bellum came up with a Twitter hashtag, #DezNat, which stands for Deseret Nation, to help like-minded conservatives within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints find one another on social media.
lgbtq community. what it s lake to be lgbtq in slc. we got mormons, nonmormons, ex-mormons and this is not meant to be a deep dive on lds. let me quickly drop some knowledge. and dispute two misconceptions. the lds church was founded in the 1920s. in the 1820s. the religion was based on him saying he met jesus and god in a forest and they told him that all the existing religions got it wrong. he found plates that he translated into the book of mormon. and the church moved around to a place where they couldn t be oppressed for they beliefs, including polygamy. they settled in the valley.
i m skiing! yeah. whoa! and let s not forget the foot loose effect. the religion that is restrictive does two things. it creates a counterculture and it makes members that who are the not fit in the religion to leave the religion. and a sizable lgbtq community. what it s lake to be lgbtq in slc. we got mormons, nonmormons, ex-mormons and this is not meant to be a deep dive on lds. and dispute two misconceptions. the lds church was founded in the 1920s. the religion was based on him saying he met jesus and god in a forest and they told him that all the existing religions got it wrong.
it creates a counterculture and it makes members that who are the not fit in the religion to leave the religion. those add up to having a sizable lgbtq community. what it s lake to be lgbtq in slc. we got mormons, nonmormons, ex-mormons and this is not meant to be a deep dive on lds. let me quickly drop some knowledge. and dispute two misconceptions. the lds church was founded in the 1920s. in the 1820s. the religion was based on him saying he met jesus and god in a forest and they told him that all the existing religions got it wrong. he found plates that he translated into the book of mormon.