Those questions became the engine of his book, which looks deep into the church’s founding and early principles, including its history of polygamy and racism - and of violence, both by and against early members. “Whence did he derive the moral justification?” Years later, however, many aspects of the killings remained obscure, and Krakauer wanted to know how that murderer could “kill a blameless woman and her baby so viciously without the barest flicker of emotion,” as he wrote. The murders shocked the small town of American Fork, Utah, where they happened, about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City. “It felt so true to me and then had all of these layers that I hadn’t yet examined about my childhood faith - my family’s faith still - and how I had grown up in it,” Black, 47, said in a three-way video call earlier this month. “Banner” shined a clarifying light into corners of church practice and history that had always been hidden to him. Black had come out as gay by then and was trying to make it as a young screenwriter.
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He also still recalls when he first read “Under the Banner of Heaven” (2003), a book of investigative journalism by Jon Krakauer that is now the basis of an FX mini-series on Hulu, which Black created. And when his stepfather became physically violent, local church leaders circled the wagons and told his mother, who was paralyzed from polio, to leave the police out of it. But his Mormon father had run off to marry his own first cousin, leaving behind a wife and three children. It was hard, he said, because he loved the church.
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Dustin Lance Black still gets emotional when he talks about the time he left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, around three decades ago.