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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Sorry but this sounds a bit over the top even for a church. Do you have a source?

I think it might be difficult to get an online source, but my source is the words of my prof in my College "contemporary Religious Movements" class. Mind you, this was ~12 years ago now. He himself had been to several of these tours himself, and I think spoken personally to some ex-mormons.

I said "most of the interior", but I may be overstating what I was told. Thinking further, it might just have been that they ripped up the carpets, or some of the carpets (perhaps anything that has been touched by the public - which could be limited during the tours to just the carpets.

They would do this just for the temples, not the individual churches.

(I don't think this source can be held legitimate enough for a pube bet, but for myself I find no reason to not trust it.)

Here's online sources (ligitimateness up for discussion):

Just before the structure is dedicated, all the brand new carpeting will actually be ripped out and replaced (to "cleanse" the temple of the "gentiles")

from this website.

(I'm told all of the carpet was ripped out after the non-believers had gone through it.)

from this website.

Perhaps by getting tourers to put protective booties on their feet they can avoid replacing the carpet?