But if you try to tell me that the Mormon church isn't looking at this as great opportunity, you're crazy.
Have you ever seen how the church spends the tithing and fast offerings it receives through voluntary donation?
Kind of hard to see those records since those records are hidden from the public.
Do you actually imagine someone in the LDS leadership saying, "You know, we might need to call the Smarts again and see how that movie and book deal thing is going. We certainly need a few $100K right about now."? I'll bet you do. You're the crazy one with a crazy, idiotic conspiracy theory. You're probably one of the whacko FReepers who thought that the whole Elizabeth Smart thing was a secret LDS Church-sponsored polygamist abduction. Prurient, gossip-mongering nonsense - but you just can't get enough of it. What a sick person you must be - I pity you.