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Have you seen this game show? It's unbelievable.

FOX straps good-looking young men and women to a lie detector (polygraph) and ask them insanely personal questions about themselves and their families. The contestants win more money as they go along. They just have to answer the questions truthfully, no matter how it might hurt their friends, and families. More than one marriage has been broken by this show, men and women agreeing they have cheated, or that they are having so-called emotional affairs with friends. When does the greed end and your love for the people you are effecting with these answers begin? That is different for everyone.

Recently, a young man, a Mormon, was on the Moment of Truth. Both of his parents, Mormons, were in the studio audience, as well as his girlfriend who just happens to be Jewish. Lets watch the fireworks...

First, Mark Walberg asked the young man if he had ever been ashamed of being a Mormon. His mother and father looked at each other in hopes that their son was proud of his religion, unfortunately it didn't work out that way. He answered the question truthfully when he told the studio audience that he has been ashamed of being a Mormon a few times in his lifetime. The camera cut straight to his parents, sitting on a sofa with his girlfriend, bowing their heads. Ouch.

Then the young man wanted to go on. He was risking everything he had earned so far by asking for another question. Mark Walberg then asked him, "Do you think your parents would accept your girlfriend more if she wasn't Jewish?" Oh, no. This can't end well. Because everyone knows that Mormon parents want nothing more for their kids to be married in the Mormon temple and have babies. You simply can't do that if both spouses are not Mormon. She wouldn't be "worthy."

He bowed his head and admitted that he believed his parents would accept his girlfriend more if she were a Mormon. He went on to say that he knew his parents wanted him to marry a Mormon, and that was just simply their wishes.

Then, it got worse.

He went on... again risking everything for another question to answer.

"Would you marry your fiancee even if your family members didn't approve?"

The camera again pans to his parents and fiancee, his mother (complete in a dress I have seen on almost every single relief society president... ever...) looks at his girlfriend and pats her knee. The young man grimaced, as if he was feeling physical pain, and we all soon learned why.

He admitted he would not marry his fiancee if his family didn't approve of her. Wow. The girlfriend sat frozen, no expression on her face. That had to hurt. It probably sucks to realize that the love you thought you had with your future husband was resting on their acceptance of you.

He eventually went on to win $100,000 from the show. Wonder how much of that, after tax, made it to his tithing check?

I wonder what kinds of questions I would ask if I could have a general authority or prophet on a lie detector... oh, the fun I could have. The truth I could get... the honesty we all deserve... what questions would you ask?