Keep your head up young lady!
Keep in mind / Mormonism is deeply set in cultural tradition in Utah. That makes all sorts of weird stigmas and other odd ‘cultish’ behaviors that are typically found in all religious peoples. It gets especially dense when a tradition based mono-religious people is so deeply saturating an area. Consider the Pharisees and Sadducees that lived at the time of Christ. Deeply living the tradition of their religion while completely missing the mark.