Scottie, I think post or ex Mormons can be all to quick to put their current mindset onto active believing Mormons.
I once believed that Joseph Smith was who he said he was, I once believed that the LDS church was the 'most' true church, that it's doctrines, and practices were closest to the mind and will of God, I once believed that the priesthood authority was a reality founded in religious truth.
I didn't think it was a fraud, otherwise I wouldn't have spent 20 years of my young life in it, serve a mission, fulfil various callings to the best (or not) of my ability, willingly pay 10percent of my income over to the church, and also give up my fertile years by not having sex or children because I wasn't married.
I made some big investments and some big sacrifices to something that I honestly believed in enough to shelve any doubts and troubling aspects.
Why on earth do you think that they aren't plenty of GA's and people in service and leadership that don't do the same thing.
Daniel Peterson seems to have a burning testimony of the rightness of the path he is on within Mormonism. Many do.
I'm almost 100percent certain that most GA's believe in the rightness of the path they are on, whilst probably also entertaining the same doubts and questions that we all have. They just choose to stick with the program, whilst we opted out.
Perhaps (and this is new to me) the probability that they have had the 2nd anointing, binds them psychologically much closer to loyalty and service within the church whilst endeavouring to develop the qualities of godliness on this earth.
I remember how much the temple is a psychological mind bind. How much more for the 2nd anointing.....
Mary