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English
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The Evangelical Countercult Movement and Mormon Conservatism
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Out of Obscurity : Mormonism Since 1945
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New York, NY
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Oxford University Press
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259-277
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Since the 1960s, Mormons have taken socially conservative positions on a range of issues, including abortion, women's rights, and same-sex marriage. Perhaps most compellingly, non-Mormon social conservatives have recognized Mormons as an ally; more evangelicals, proportionately, voted for the Mormon presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012 than they had for John McCain in 2008. And yet at the same midcentury moment that Mormonism began to join this conservative coalition, those evangelicals who formed its core began to sharpen their criticism of the LDS Church.