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Slate Magazine in: Religious conservatives are ready for Mitt Romney acts surprised. After all,

And Mormons? Well, the last thing you'd expect evangelicals to do is support a candidate whose religion many of them consider to be a polygamous cult with practices and beliefs that derive from Freemasonry, not the New Testament.

Never mind that the LDS church considered polygamists to be apostate. But this is the first time I have heard the Freemasonry part. Indeed, to some extent, it may be easier for Evangelicals to get along with Mormons than Catholics, as the Mormon faith is descended from Protestantism (though adding a whole new Book of Mormon to the scriptures is a bit troublesome for Protestants, and, I think esp., Catholics).