 When Pyle lost his bid for re-election in 1954 to Democratic candidate Ernest McFarland, Pyle blamed the fallout from the raid as having destroyed his political career.One of the few media outlets to applaud the raid was the Salt Lake City-based "Deseret News", which was owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).The "News" applauded the action as a needed response to prevent the fundamentalists from becoming "a cancer of a sort that is beyond hope of human repair."