HBO has a program called Big Love, which is about a fictitious polygamous family living in Salt Lake. The show producers have asserted that this is a fictional show which isn't about the LDS Church, it's people, or its beliefs, but the close parallels and subjects treated in the episodes lead many to disbelieve that assertion. The topic of an upcoming episode led the Church to make a press release: http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/commentary/the-publicity-dilemma. An interesting follow up article from the Salt Lake Tribune, after it published an article that many found offensive is: http://www.sltrib.com/News/ci_11909561?source=most .
I remember reading an article a few months ago by a press commentator who asserted that that LDS people are still considered by many as second-class citizens, and as such they aren't afforded the protections that other groups have attained.
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