You are so right about this.
I recently got to know a 2nd cousin, through my own genealogy work. She was raised a Baptist and has now become a Mormon,(I am not a LDS CULT member, ok)
In asking about her mother and grandmother. She then showed me a picture of her mother, sitting very close to her girlfriend. I let is pass, without saying anything.
A little later she told me her mother and that friend were more than close and the community accepted it. I said, "Are you telling me she was a lesbian?", she shook her head yes.
Her mother's raised her, very nice woman, but seems to be very confused. I think as she was growing up in that home, it must have been very hard for her to figure out how her mother's lifestyle and the Baptist teachings made any sense, and I'm sure the community was talking about this. She was probably ridiculed in school as well.
In searching for something to make any sense, the LDS came to the rescue and took her in. The LDS only seek very weak minded people.
Saw this happen to another woman when her husband died. She too joined the LDS cult, she told my mom, "they were the only ones to come to me"
Instead of reaching out herself to find spiritual help, she opened her door to LDS fraud, with no effort on her part. These people are mostly just lazy.
I'm not sure I buy that entirely....I think they also shoose those with big pocketbooks and then funnel them thru rank and file rather quickly, perhaps bypassing some of the darker side of LDS which might discourage them. Scientology does this as do other cults...they cater to the elite types as a means of getting to their purses.