I'd have to disagree. I don't have any insight into the church office building's internal network, but I do know that they already have massive lines going into the church office building and the surrounding Temple Square area. The church itself has no need for more fiber. Even if they did, they showed no desire to help UTOPIA along (they even have the capabilities of becoming a private leaser), so what makes you think they would want to pipe their traffic through a third party advertising agency?

Secondly, Salt Lake City proper, where I live and where this announcement is declaring the buildout initiative, is very much not-mormon. The number of people logging on to their site to stream videos is minuscule compared to the number of people in the surrounding suburban sprawl. Google Fiber isn't coming to Salt Lake Valley, it's coming to the City. This won't help them.

The LDS church doesn't host its own video content. It appears to all come through Brightcove.

They LDS Church is pretty advanced technically, and like any large tech organization they have many hosting sites, mirrors, and data centers. That is like saying Tim Cook would help get Google Fiber in Cupertino because lots of people around the world download apps. Sure, but not really.

Mormon mafia?