Stephenie Meyer is a Mormon. This explains almost every single WTF thing about the Twilight series. If you felt like she was preaching to you, she was, only I don't even think it was deliberate subtext. Its just her ingrained WTF. There are dozens of not-so-subtle Mormon parallels and influences, including Volturi = Catholic church = EVIL, and Werewolves = Native Americans = Lamanites = EVIL.

Read this: http://stoney321.livejournal.com/317176.html

It points out (and mocks) all of the parallels, and is one of the funniest damn things Ive ever read.