Is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints a Protestant Sect?

[DC Al Fine]

No, they don't hold common Protestant theologies, nor do they share a common Protestant history. If they're Christians, they're their own branch.

[DC Al Fine]

Heck, if Bishop Spong was a Protestant, how aren't the Mormons?

Spong deviates enough from Episcopalian orthodoxy that it is questionable that he should still be considered Protestant, tho the church he officially belongs to certainly is.

Precisely. If he doesn't believe in the resurrection, he isn't a Christian, much less a Protestant in any meaningful sense of the terms.

[DC Al Fine]

Heck, if Bishop Spong was a Protestant, how aren't the Mormons?

Spong deviates enough from Episcopalian orthodoxy that it is questionable that he should still be considered Protestant, tho the church he officially belongs to certainly is.

Precisely. If he doesn't believe in the resurrection, he isn't a Christian, much less a Protestant in any meaningful sense of the terms.

metaphorical interpretation of the Resurrection narrative is common among progressive Christians, so you're writing off maybe a fifth or a sixth of American Christians.

Yes precisely.