To understand a faith, first understand the people who practice it

Earlier this summer, I was in Salt Lake City on production for “Undivided,” a planned new TV show about American religions that I’m hosting. In Salt Lake I met with Latter-day Saints, known widely as Mormons — a term that some view as pejorative. Some were queer, and some were Black, and many of these church members shared their stories of being doubly marginalized: first as religious minorities historically rejected by their fellow Americans, and then by people from their own community.