Your the first person to tell me LDS are pro-abortion, anti-marriage, socialist, and against religion in public life. Quite the opposite. Nancy Pelosi claims she is a conservative Catholic. I suppose you believe that too? Even Michael Moore goes to church every week.
Actually the LDS are less pro-life in general than their PR makes out. Abortion is allowed regardless of reason if ‘prayerfully considered’ and many people who work in Utah know of active LDS women who have had abortions (usually to cover up pre-martial sex). Their history is communistic, and many LDS I know support gay marriage because they realize it will open the doors to polygamy.
I was on the front lines in Palm Springs (high gay area) during the Prop 8 drive and there were a lot of Catholics and Evangelicals but NO Mormons in the area who really worked for it, contrary to the media hype. Mormon PR machine is at full speed but the reality is vastly different.
Your comparison to Pelosi and Moore isn’t valid. Unlike Catholicism, Mormonism is an ‘all or nothing’ proposition. There are no half way points, you either believe wholly and work your butt of to be ‘temple worthy’ (like Romney) or you are a ‘jack Mormon’ or you leave.
Regardless of their politics, both Reid and Romney are TBM (true blue) active temple Mormons - they are true believers.