I respect you, silly. :o
The LDS is like any other in that it has its crazies (the prairie-dressing plural-wife havin' desert people) and the fairly normal ones like the friends I grew up with. They want to separate themselves totally from the crazies, would never touch a child, and only want one spouse.
I don't think anyone deserves automatic respect, and if someone's beliefs are hurting others I think it's perfectly fine to tell them that they are being batshit crazy. Or a more eloquent term. But I suppose as far as the people who are just walking around living their lives, I'm terribly Midwestern in that I don't like to be rude and am of the "Oh well we don't agree but let's go have some coffee and bars and talk about them Vikings, huh?" persuasion.
Onagar is there something wrong with the word "it" ? 
I also quite like this book, which switches off using He and She. As in:
"God is indeed deep", Old Turtle said to the fish in the sea; "and much higher than high?", she told the mountains.
"He is swift and free as the wind and still and solid as a great rock" she said to the breezes and stones. "She is the life of the world" Turtle said to the willow.
"Always close by, yet beyond the farthest twinkling light" she told the ant and the star.
"God is gentle and powerful. Above all things and within all things.
God is all we dream of, and all we seek" said Old Turtle, "all that we come from and all that we find." God IS.
Sorry that was long, I've just always loved it. And believe it. Well, not the talking turtle bit. :)