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Originally Posted by All-American
The mean General authority has also been a member of the church for several decades. The average attendee at BYU is a multi-generational member of the church (I'd say, as a very poor guess, 2 or 3 generations, on average). MoTab is comprised of people who live in Utah and are so familiar with the Choir that they are willing to give up a significant amount of time to participate in a volunteer organization.
Moral of the story? These three faces of the church represent the demographics of the church as they stood decades ago. General practice (and, in the case of General Authorities, necessity) dictates that the use of these groups as a litmus test for the rest of the church will always be many years behind the times.
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There's a 200+ post thread about this from a month ago or so.
Low GA turnover + many years of church experience prior to GA calling = Very large demographic lag between church membership and GAs.
This will solve itself over the next twenty to thirty years, at the most.