It has been suggested that the Masons in America are different from those in Europe. It's very difficult to be certain about the beliefs of the top people in secret societies, but I'd be inclined to agree that there may be something in this.
The Europeans Masons were, and apparently still are, an anti-Catholic, anti-Christian, conspiratorial organization. In America many of our leading patriots and religious figures, from George Washington on down, have been Masons. Their motives and behavior appear to differ from European Masons.
Knee-jerk anti-Catholicism has been a significant strain in America from the founding until recent times, when the Protestant establishment based on the mainline Churches ceased to be predominantly Christian and mostly turned liberal and secular. Although American Masons in the past may have been anti-Catholic like most other Americans, I don't think Masonry was in the forefront of American anti-Catholicism.
When only the initiated inner circle at the top of the organization knows what it's real purpose is, then the whole organization can change its actual purpose and start identifying with its public and not its covert purpose. I think (but there's no way to know for sure) that that may have been what happened to American Masonry.
Let's concentrate our fire (on THIS thread, anyway) on the REAL enemy: the God-less ACLU!