Interview: Scott Gordon, FAIR President
February 26th, 2008 by Menachem Wecker
Here is my interview with Scott Gordon, president of the Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research (FAIR). The picture is from blacklds.org.
Greg Kearney sent you a good response already, but I wanted to make additional comments.
First of all, in looking at the blog I would consider it anti-Mormon. The artwork and blogs, are an attempt to attack Joseph Smith or to shock our sensibilities. We are familiar with the issues portrayed, and they are favorites that are brought up and highlighted by antagonists of the LDS church.
Art is, well, art. As art, it typically is there to represent ideas or evoke emotions.So just as the art on this blog is meant to evoke negative feelings, the art depicting some of Church history isn’t accurate. The Freiburg paintings, the Teichert paintings, and Greg Olsen’s paintings are probably the most popular from LDS artists, but Carl Bloch, the non-Mormon Danish artist, is probably still one of the most popular within the church.
There are no restrictions on art.