With tough election ahead, Bennett pens LDS book 'Leap of Faith' » Campaign denies senator's book timed to politics by Thomas Burr The Salt Lake Tribune 08/25/2009 Washington » Sen. Bob Bennett knows The Book of Mormon is true, and in a new book he tells others how he came to that conclusion. (with no facts to support that conclusion) The book, published by LDS Church-owned Deseret Book, comes as the Utah Republican faces a tough re-election challenge from within his own party ranks. In fact, Deseret Book's news release was issued the same day the conservative group Club for Growth launched a blistering attack on Bennett's bipartisan health-care-reform bill co-sponsored by Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden. (no non-LDS church owned publisher would touch this book of fiction) Bennett's campaign says the timing of the book's release has nothing to do with politics, resting entirely in the hands of the publisher. (He is trying to get reelected _base_d on religion in Utah) In the book, Leap of Faith , Bennett applies four forgery tests to determine whether the book is a fake, according to the news release. (scientific tests have already concluded it is fiction) Deseret Book said Bennett decided to write the book after becoming upset with the shallow media coverage of The Book of Mormon leading up to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. (loyal cult members will always get upset when confronted with the facts) Most of it was evenhanded, but publications that discussed The Book of Mormon in any degree of detail almost universally treated it as a fabrication, Bennett said in a release, one whose claims and history were so bizarre that no one with any common sense could believe it to be authentic. (many scientific persons in different fields of expertise are correct in their analysis) The Book of Mormon, according to the LDS Church, was translated from ancient gold plates revealed by an angel to church founder Joseph Smith. It is held out as the documented history of God's interactions with Israelites who came to America before the birth of Jesus Christ. (pure fiction) Bennett acknowledges that the book requires a leap of faith to believe. (no facts support it) I offer it in the hope it will convince all who have an interest in The Book of Mormon, be they believers or skeptics, that any decision with respect to its origins requires a leap of faith, Bennett wrote in the preface to his 318-page book. (no one else would write the preface) The three-term senator faces three GOP competitors in his 2010 re- election bid, all of them portraying themselves as more conservative alternatives to the incumbent. (Bob Bennett is out of touch with reality) The timing of the book's release immediately raised questions about political motives. (correct) Certainly, it's hard to believe it is purely a coincidence that the same time he's running for re-election he's also working on this book and releasing it in advance of the [potential] primary, said University of Utah political science professor Matthew Burbank. (Bob Bennett is running scared) Under Utah's system, the top two vote-getters in a state Republican convention face off in a primary unless one secures 60 percent of the delegate vote