Nor does he explore, in any meaningful way, the contrast between the advance of the ChurchofJesusChristof Latter-Day Saints around the world as a churchof the upwardly mobile and the respectable middle class, and the extremism of the church's American fundamentalists.
Romney's close ties to the state of Utah, home to the ChurchofJesusChristof Latter-day Saints, led to his hiring as the head of the troubled Salt Lake City Winter Olympics of 2002.