this is the utahtate senator curt bramble, a republican and mormon who helped craft the bill. >> personally, i have not seen the lds church lobby any issue harder than they're actively on the house bill 116, the immigration legislation. >> reporter: i jokingly said you know, they may as well pitched a tent in the back halls. >> reporter: ron mortensen is a career foreign service officer and a former mormon missionary who founded the utah coalition against illegal immigration and he's not too happy with his church. >> reporter: they had full access, the church lobbyists had u full access where normal people can't go, in the back halls and through all of the back alleyways and they were all full time this seion. >> reporter: and the result was legislation that would allow undocumented immigrant families to continue living and working in the state, providing among other things, they have no criminal record and pay a fine for being in the country illegally. >> reporter: originally the legislature was only going to pass an enforcement bill similar to the controversial one in arizona until a comp