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March 28, 2012

Cancel the Mormon Theocracy Watch

Walter Russell Mead, American Interest

Remember that Mormon conspiracy to take over America that folks like Yale’s Harold Bloom and Salon’s Sally Denton keep warning us about? Well, according to a new survey of Utah lawmakers, it runs so deep that most Utah politicians have never even been lobbied by the LDS Church.

BuzzFeed’s McKay Coppins has the insidious details:

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TAGGED: Politics, Mormons

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