@PeteS in CA
Ok,thanks,but I was asking for information because I really didn't know. I DO sorta vaguely remember the Mormons were ran out of the east for their religious viewpoints,but that's about it.
Mormons are wholly integrated into the Rocky Mountain West. I know many of them. I consider many of them to be my friends. They are, by and large, an hardy, good and gentle folk.
There are doctrinal differences which are indeed insurmountable, much as
@don-o has stated, and everyone knows that to be true (from both directions).
But socially they are accepted in the Christian community, functioning side by side in many ways where Christianity intersects the community at large... Much in the same way that Protestants and Catholics can get together to work or have fun, where doctrinal differences can be set aside.
But maybe the West is strange that way, as independence makes for strange bedfellows.
Different story where doctrine applies. Marriages as an instance. Mormons marry Mormons, just as Protestants marry Protestants, and Catholics marry Catholics. Where it must, we stand apart.
But there is much upon which we all agree, and that is where the focus is most of the time.