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[quote=Anonymous]Being a "temple Mormon" (an adult who is allowed to enter the LDS Temple to attend weddings and do temple rituals--most adult LDS members do not hold temple recommends although it's worth noting that Romney, Reid, and probably every elected official in the Utah legislature does) means you get interviewed about your private life pretty extesively by your bishop.  If you've been unfaithful to your spouse, gotten a divorce (there are exceptions to this, but leaving your spouse for an affair partner would not a suitable one), been dishonest in business dealings, been sexually immoral and not done some serious repentance, not paid tithing, been evasive about your taxes, stiffed charities etc, there's no way you'd get a recommend.  Those are not traits that are admired in the LDS Church.  I don't know much about Southern Baptists, but high ranking LDS politicians do at least walk the walk when it comes to what their church expects from its members, and if they don't, they're usually pretty quick to 'fess up and repent (see: Crapo and his DWI problem a few years back), or else they'll get their temple recommends yanked and probably get excommunicated and never elected to any office again if it's a reasonably serious offense.  [/quote]

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