I was amused and astonished when speaking with four young missionaries in the course of my studies. Wrong in the first instance, a pompous assumption in the second. But these young men, with so little life experience, take themselves very seriously. Give them a name tag and they'll do anything. Church is in one aspect a business, and it is the nature of a business to perpetuate itself or it will die.
Churches live by recruiting new converts.
Churches are run by men and men will always have a sin nature. Accountability is the key to maintaining a healthy church, assuming of course, that the doctrine is correct. And the Mormon doctrine is not correct. I hope that this information will be healing and offer some explanation to those former Mormons still hurting. They overcame social and psychological pressures that were very real in order to leave the church.