And while these young Mormons stress self-control, they themselves are controlled to a remarkable degree by the church . In fact, Mormons who break the rules of morality or health are not allowed to enter sacred Mormon temples . Mormon is not easy. In addition to what you cannot do, there's a lot you are supposed to do. You're expected to read scripture daily , and to read scripture together as a family at least one night a week.
Students attend daily religious courses.
Sunday services last three hours. But beyond that, church activities take several more hours each week. All of those hours and all of those rules are too much for some Mormons, who fall away. Steve Benson left the church to become one of its most outspoken critics, even though his late grandfather, Ezra Taft Benson, President Eisenhower's Secretary of Agriculture, had been a church president. Steve Benson complains that by enforcing conformity the church stifles independent thought.