Baptists, Mormons

I enjoyed your article “Evangelicals Crusading in Mormon Utah” (June 8). I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and as such it saddens me to see that Southern Baptists are misled in believing that we do not believe in Jesus Christ. Why would we name our church after Jesus Christ if we did not believe in him?

Furthermore who is Mark Coppenger to say who will and will not be saved? Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of our religion. Religion-bashing is not a principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I can’t help thinking of what is and has been going on in Serbia, where opposing faiths have been killing each other for hundreds of years.

CHRIS PLUMB

Garden Grove