Brother, I’ve known MANY LDS (not to be referred to as Mormons) over the past 33 years since I first moved for a job to Sugarhouse in SLC, and since then. Romney and Reid are no way mainstream in many of the views you are speaking of. The LDS populace is VERY conservative.
So I respectfully call on you to document your assertions also, because they do not match in any way, shape or form my experience.
IMHO
They like to appear conservative, but they aren’t, some are, some are not. I thought they were conservative also, until I got in the middle of them (being LDS and living in Utah).
I posted sources above.
Reid and Romney are both “active” temple Mormons, true believers, not MINOs.
Mormons = LDS and even most LDS I know use the term.