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I take exception to Marilyn Gibson's letter, "Placing Mormon faith" (Forum, Oct. 20), when she claims that Episcopalians "don't think Mormons are Christian." While I applaud her ability to back up her research using the trusted source Wikipedia, I urge her to broaden her research before asserting that my religion does not consider our Latter-day Saint brothers and sisters to be Christian.
It might interest Gibson to know that when Carolyn Tanner Irish, the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah, was confirmed a member of the Episcopal Church, her LDS baptism "was recognized as valid" (also Wikipedia). When I was confirmed a member of the Episcopal Church by Bishop Irish, my LDS baptism was also recognized as a Christian baptism, since it had been performed using water and the invocation of the Trinity.
The question whether members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are Christian would almost predispose a second question: How many Christs are there? The answer I get to the second question is: only one. That helps to answer the first question: of course they are.
Rick Stevenson
South Jordan