they meet a lot of like-minded people and get to know each other, offer each other jobs etc but the same could be said of most golf clubs couldn't it?

Hmmmm....sounds like Congress!

In all of my life I have never met a Mormon who was also a Mason. As I was growing up and connected with Masons through Job's Daughters, the two, Mormons and Masons, were anathema to one another.