eeewww, Ouch.
Yes...and Card was "true" in acknowleding this about his own Mormon ancestors:
From the column: Unfortunately, Farland's excellent research brought him face to face with the fact that my own great-great grandfather, Apostle Franklin D. Richards, behaved rather badly. So badly, in fact, that President Brigham Young himself accused Richards of being proud and not listening to the Spirit, while publicly saying that Levi Savage had been in the right to warn the Martin and Willie companies not to cross the plains so late in the season....there is no denying that on this occasion he behaved unwisely and, in the view of most of the witnesses, proudly, making false promises and coercive statements that clearly did not turn out to have come from the Lord. However loyal Richards' descendants might wish to be, we cannot fault Farland for depicting him in his novel exactly the way his own contemporaries saw him!
Yet why does this specter of "plastic dashboard [Latter-day] saints" even exist? Because Lds, Inc. has ensured that their general conferences, their curricula, their priesthood manuals, their relief society manuals, their magazines (Ensign & Liahona), their online articles, and their books prop up such cardboard cutouts!