I don't want to put down Mitt Romney's Mormon faith

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29. Sunday school isn't much training

Neither is the LDS "seminary", it's basically 1 hour daily bible study (and Book of Mormon, D & C) in high school. "Priest" is another meaningless title, if you're 17, and in good standing, bingo, you're a pretty much automatically a "Priest". (When you're 12, you become a "Deacon", then later, a "Teacher"...see a pattern of big titles emerging?) Being a Missionary basically is a rite of passage to become a glorified door-knocker, and also makes you an "Elder". "Stake President" means you handle bureaucratic duties over a small group of people, like a deanery (there are roughly 3,000 of them across the globe, some smaller than a mile wide, usually less than 5,000 members total). Oh, and he's also a "High Priest", another meaningless title, probably a "Patriarch", too.

Now, if he was one of the "Seventy", that's kind of high up there, similar to a cardinal in the Catholic church, but "Bishop" and even "Stake President" are mostly ceremonial, temporary, duties.