MORE ON UTAH: The Economist does his/her usual even-handed job on Utah and Mormons. Not only have they stopped with the polygamy, but the socialism as well:

In the early years, the church was almost communist in its attitude to private property. It required Mormons to hand over their goods to the church, which then handed them back but gave the former owners only “stewardship” over them. This meant that the church's leaders could make discretionary demands on the faithful for the greater good. Like polygamy, this system was abandoned long ago, as the church's embrace of corporate capitalism shows. Yet vestiges remain.

Worth reading as an introduction to the current state of the Church of Latter-Day Saints.