having your neighbor run around the neighborhood that you cheated on your wife and then said that he heard it from your other neighbor but will do a follow up yell around when he has talked to a few other neighbors a few weeks later?

Look, unfortunately our church already has a negative stigma against it when it comes to racism claims. Having a black LDS dude go around and sling mud is not good. You are right I have no evidence about the impact the article had.....it would be tough to come up with hard facts on the issue. So let me restate....IMO he has caused tremendous damage by his unfounded racism claims.