Fundamentalists have never accepted Mormonism as valid. Nothing new in that - it's not just their political agenda - it's their cultural agenda and part of their dogma.
The point is that the organizations themselves cannot withstand scrutiny. The turning point in democracy in the western world was when the French separated the church from the state and stripped the institution of its wealth. They confiscated the wealth of the church to keep the church from helping to fund royalists - because the church was never on the side of democracy. The church was always on the side of power and repression. The church was the biggest feudal landlord in France and as abusive of an institution as the monarchy.
We're at the same point in the U.S. today - the church - the oppressive power of organized conservative belief - has sided with power again and again and has continued to hawk beliefs that are archaic compared to the cultural understanding of the world that is based upon the idea of progress and an increase in human rights.
So what if some people within the organization do some good - if the organization itself, at the level of the exericise of power, is so corrupt it undermines the very ideas it is supposed to uphold?
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