Before Glenn Beck achieved prominence, he was managing four local radio stations in Connecticut, including one where I was a substitute talk show host. I did not know Beck personally but we were all aware that he had a drinking problem and that he was then Catholic as many of us were. He claims that a Mormon helped him to overcome his problems with alcoholism and that he THEN became a Mormon.
It doesn’t matter what led Glenn Beck and his wife to Mormonism half a decade after he quit drinking, but he is a proud promoter of the religion and has written a book about his conversion and the joy of his new religion.
From wiki: “He said he stopped drinking alcohol and smoking cannabis in November 1994, the same month he attended his first AA meeting.[35] Beck later said that he had gotten high every day for the previous 15 years, since the age of 16.[27]
In 1996, while working for a New Haven area radio station, Beck took a theology class at Yale University, with a written recommendation from Senator Joe Lieberman, a Yale alumnus who was a fan of Beck’s show at the time.[37] Beck enrolled in an “Early Christology” course, but soon withdrew, marking the extent of his post-secondary education.[35][38]
Beck then began a “spiritual quest” in which he “sought out answers in churches and bookstores”.[35] As he later recounted in his books and stage performances, Beck’s first attempt at self-education involved six wide-ranging authors, comprising what Beck jokingly calls “the library of a serial killer”: Alan Dershowitz, Pope John Paul II, Adolf Hitler, Billy Graham, Carl Sagan, and Friedrich Nietzsche.[37] During this time, Beck’s Mormon friend and former radio partner Pat Gray argued in favor of the “comprehensive worldview” offered by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, an offer that Beck rejected until a few years later.[35]
In 1999, Beck married his second wife, Tania.[35] After they went looking for a faith on a church tour together, they[35] joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in October 1999, partly at the urging of his daughter Mary.[39][40] Beck was baptized by his old friend, and current-day co-worker Pat Gray.[35] Beck and his current wife Tania have had two children together, Raphe (who is adopted) and Cheyenne. Until April 2011, the couple lived in New Canaan, Connecticut, with the four children.”