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.”
Beck has changed his conversion story so many time he’s forgotten why he became a morman. A few years ago he was interviewed and said he was raised in a nominal Catholic home, never practiced his faith much. He got married and said he had a bad drinking problem. He goes on to say that his daughter was dating a morman and she asked him would he go to one of the services with her and her boyfriend. He agreed to go and said he heard that mormans don’t drink and that appealed to him, so he became morman. Well goofball Beck, I know plenty of Catholics and baptists that don’t drink, and you didn’t have to join a faith started by Joe Smith to quit drinking, a faith that is indeed a cult and has bastardized the Word of God. The truth of the matter is Glenn “Conspiracy” Beck is a little strange and always has been.