ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the similarities between how the Alt-Right was addressed among American Mormons and LDS Church leadership and among the SBC, with specific references to their institutions’ complicity in propagating racist doctrines and practices. However, this chapter also talks about how the term “Alt-Right” itself came to be at the center of debates, especially on social media and other online resources, for what the LDS Church and Catholic Church should do concerning accepting LGBTQ+ persons in their institutions. Here we see how American Christians of many traditions in the years after 2016, when most Americans learned about the Alt-Right, framed many of the most difficult issues facing them in terms of “The Alt-Right.” I argue that in some ways, the discursive frame of the term “Alt-Right” became a way for these Christians to debate what their institutions should teach and practice in the twenty-first century.
