Double edge- have you ever looked into the history of the Mormon Church? The LDS are actually the apostates from Joseph Smith's teaching. He fully believed and practiced Poligamy. It was not until the US government threatened to step in that the LDS changed their teachings. The small radical groups, although maybe even more radical than before follow the original teachings much more closely. The LDS don't even like to be called Mormoms anymore, at least not the ones I know. I live VERY close to the Utah border and know a LOT of LDS members including some that live in Utah. When I lived in Florda we met and became very close to a LDS lady with 6 kids. When we moved to Colorado my husband offered her a job here and she came. We have always been very close to her. She is one of the sweetest people we know, BUT, she is LDS and just like my JW mom she follows their rules strictly. She does not drink caffine, won't work on Sundays, or even go somewhere where others have to work to serve her, she goes to all their meetings and teaches some womens group they have. After a while she met up with her old high school sweetheart and they decided to get married (her husband had left her many, many years earlier). He is also a devout LDS member and they got married in a temple in Utah. We were not allowed to attend because we were not worth to step foot in their temple. Her own daughter was not allowed to attend,as I stated in my last post and her son was on a mission and could not even call and talk to his mother. She informed him by letter that she was getting married. He also missed his sisters wedding because he was on his mission. When they are on missions they are not allowed to have a TV or have contact with any of their family except for calls on certain holidays. They are told for that whole 2 years that they have to focus soley on bible study and preaching. They also excommunicate people. Some LDS are not as strict in that matter as others, but in most Utah communities that I know of they can be VERY cold to former members and to outsiders. There have been news articles about how children from non-LDS families are made to feel like outcasts at some Utah schools, including ones in Salt Lake City. Now this is certainly not true of ALL LDS. They have a bit more choise in how far they take their teachings and some congergations are more radical than others.
As far as Baptists churches, that also depends on where you are in the country. Some southern baptists really still push fire and brimstone. Some charm snakes. Most baptists are pretty mainstream though. and the LDS are NOT like them.