Of course, society by and large expects honesty too, and most parents teach honesty regardless of religion (and I am certain my parents would have). My own honesty is not the mere product of the Mormon influence in my life, but it certainly played a large part in the development of my sense of, take on and practices of honesty.
Nevertheless, LDS honesty seems focused on honesty 'in your dealings with your fellow man.' Not on honesty with yourself. My parents touched slightly on honesty with one's self. However, it was not until reading Hamlet in junior high that the importance of such was driven home to me. In Act I, Scene III, Polonius gives a father's blessing to his son, Laertes. It concludes, after going through a short list of do's and don't's (such as not lending or borrowing money from a friend)--
Duh! And as important as others are, oneself is primary to any being.This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
I do not cast aspersions or judgments on those that have stopped believing in their religious claims but continue to participate in it for family and social reasons. At least if not going so far as 'bearing a testimony' that they 'know the Church is true' or believe it, when in fact they do not. I think that is misleading others. (Others that are misled by the no-longer-believing participant merely continuing that participation without professions of belief is an assumption that those others are making, without deceptive statements of belief from that participant.)
This thread is started because I have a friend who has recently confided in me that she no longer believes, but continues participation in the LDS Church for family and social reasons. She is struggling with this. She has told her husband of her new disbelief, and her bishop too. Both have encouraged her to not only continue in her attendance and participation, but also are now particularly telling her she needs to take the stand during F&T meetings and bear a testimony of the truthfulness of the LDS gospel and its tenets. Her husband and her bishop say that she should do so for three reasons: (a) her children, (b) the other ward members, and (c) that by bearing her 'testimony' she will realize she actually has one and it will grow stronger. I remember hearing such from one of the 12 when I was in the Missionary Training Center. He said we had an obligation to each other to bear a testimony even if we did not yet, to bolster and encourage the other missionaries and then those that we would be 'teaching' in the mission field. And over the course of doing so, we'd develop and learn for ourselves such a testimony.
Like me, my friend believes that # (c) is merely a practice that self-brainwashes and it is not being honest with herself, and ## (a) and (b) reasons are to deceive and mislead her children and other ward members. Our discussion concluded with her observing that the LDS Church had helped teach her to be honest, but her LDS bishop (and her TBM husband and 'priesthood holder' in the house) is asking her to be dishonest.
Go figure.