I am both a Mormon and a Mason. I was born and raised in So. California and I was raised (a Mason) in Provo, UT but now live in Texas. Brother Maples, the answer to your question "I was just wanting to know the perception from non mason mormons about how they feel about our fraternity as well as Mormon masons" is complicated and is heavily influenced by the history between Mormons and Masons. I am not an historian, but I have researched the topic a little bit since it interests me, so take what you hear with a grain of salt. Joseph Smith, the founder of our church, was born into a Masonic family (both father and older brother were Masons), but he did not join until after he had started the church and was living in Nauvoo, Illinois with a large group of church members. These church members had gathered together to form communities before but had experienced persecution from their neighbors, perhaps because of suspicion of the withdrawn nature of the community. I believe that one of the reasons he joined the Craft was to help keep an open dialogue between the Latter-Day Saints and the community outside of their churches.Joseph was very enthusiastic about Freemasonry, maybe a little too enthusiastic. Within a couple of years, there were more Mormon Freemasons in Illinois than non-Mormon. The Grand Lodge of Illinois wanted Freemasonry to be more exclusive than the Mormons were making it. This, and some irregularities in the way they ran their lodges, resulted in a suspension of the charter of all Mormon Lodges. About that time, Joseph was assassinated (Mormons say martyred), and everybody seemed to believe that Masons were involved. If there were Masons involved, it was probably just a group working outside of a lodge, but a lodge in Warsaw (where anti-Mormon sentiment was high) voluntarily gave up its charter – supposedly while under investigation by the Grand Lodge of Illinois.By rights, Brigham Young (the next church president) should have felt betrayed by Freemasonry. Men have become anti-Masons under less provocation. Instead, he instituted a policy of silence toward the Fraternity. No official church mandate or declaration was made, but it was as if the entire church forgot about Freemasonry. The first lodge to be established in Utah was a military lodge instituted when Johnston’s army came to put down the “Mormon Rebellionâ€.After that, all lodges in Utah were seen as a foil to Brigham’s “theocratic democracyâ€, and anti-Mormon sentiment developed and festered. In the early 1900’s, the Grand Lodge of Utah declared that no Mormon could be made a Mason in its jurisdiction, a policy that was reversed only in the early 80s. I know of some lodges in Utah that were blackballing Mormon candidates into the mid 90s.Although this destructive and anti-Masonic policy has been overcome, it has added to the awkward history and has developed a sense of unease that Mormons have, in general, with Freemasonry. They know that the early leaders were Masons, and that we no longer talk about that sort of thing. Brother Maples, you may have been a little uncomfortable but I promise they were probably uncomfortable too.The good news is now that Freemasonry in Utah is no longer excluding the majority of the population, there is a whole new group of people that are becoming more and more interested in it. Though still the smallest jurisdiction in the US, I believe that the Grand Lodge of Utah is growing.I hope that I haven’t bored you, that I have somewhat answered your question, and I hope that I don’t have too many of my facts wrong. Again, I will add my caveat: I am interested in the history between Mormons and Masons, and believe that the preceding information is accurate, but I am not an historian, so I can’t guarantee it.