Romney, Mormons brace for a mean political season

SALT LAKE CITY — As 20,000 Mor­mons streamed from the church con­fer­ence cen­ter, a rag­tag group of pro­test­ers stood across the street shout­ing that the Latter-day Saints were going to hell. Mor­mon fam­i­lies, who had gath­ered here for two days of speeches and spir­i­tual guid­ance called Gen­eral Con­fer­ence, ignored the heck­lers or laughed and kept walking.