Authoritarianism and Mormonism

Critics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints charge that it is authoritarian. They claim that the Church's leaders:

• engage in censorship and historical revisionism of negative incidents in Church history such as suppressing free speech in the Nauvoo Expositor incident
• support sexist doctrine and practices such as Plural Marriage
• exercise improper or undue influence on politics to resist homosexual marriage, gambling, abortion, etc.
• are dogmatic and inflexible
• encourage a culture of unthinking conformity
• mercilessly excommunicate scholars who disagree with Church doctrine or practices

See Totalitarian religious group