"My own daughter," he then added, "has come to me and said, 'Dad, why didn't you ever tell me that Joseph Smith was a polygamist?'"...
Source: Special report -Mormonism besieged by the modern age [Lds church is hemorrhaging in member losses]
This shows (a) how sheltered Mormons are from its own most basic filtered history; and (b) How important truth venues like Free Republic can be in getting young Mormons past this oversheltered existence.
A Reuters article interviewing Jensen had some additional interesting comments:
General Authority Jensen told Reuters there have been more attrition over the last five or ten years...
"I think we are at a time of challenge," he told Reuters...The Open Stories Foundation "conducted a survey that Dehlin said suggests disaffections have trended upward the last three to six years...
Source Mormons opening up in an Internet world [& Losing members accordingly]
What are the key sources for Mormon heartburn that's removing their "burning bosoms?"
(a) The Internet; and (b) Joseph Smith/Mormon history itself!
From the linked-above Reuters article: ...[Lds scholar Richard] Bushman heard that many other scholars were also being beset with queries from members of the LDS Church who had encountered something on the Internet that had shaken their faith. He began to hear the same thing from ordinary Mormons who had friends or family who were having problems. He also heard from people at BYU how it was a problem there as well. People were encountering things about church history and losing their faith...Jensen acknowledged some people are surprised and troubled by what they read...Peterson said...that people discover this or that historical fact they had never heard before. They then feel like the church had been hiding the fact and so lose a sense of trust.
I remember an episode of Big Love where Bill Paxton’s character made the comment while watching a Pioneer Day parade that the LDS didn’t want to admit the “nasty” detail of Smith or Young’s wives.