Actually, it's smart politics for Huckabee to come out with this, given the prejudicial nature of the Republican electorate.  If he can knock out Romney before Giuliani can begin his recovery in Florida (presumably), Huckabee just might find a seam and go all the way.  Thompson looks dead everywhere, and second-place in NH won't save McCain.  

Whatever happened to "no religious test"?  And the hell of it is, all the posturing is displaying little in the way of ethics or morality, let alone "Christian" charity or tolerance.

The Christians hate the Muslims, the Muslims hate the Jews.  This is the consequence of blurring the clear line of separation of Church and State.  The "religious" have opened a can of worms, and now politicians are attacking one another's religious beliefs.  Hillary or Dodd or someone should take leadership and say, "Bring Americans together by recognizing that the separation of Church and State is to the benefit of BOTH Church and State.  Romney shouldn't be saying he wouldn't have a Muslim in his administration.  Huckabee shouldn't be arguing, as per his Bible, that women should be subservient to men.  McCain shouldn't be hugging Falwell and Obama shouldn't be pandering to the evangelicals by having a homophobe on stage with him.  Let religious beliefs be an issue between the believer and their God, not between the electorate and their government."

That explains what I heard Glenn Beck complaining about.  It's clear the AM conservative talk show hosts prefer Romney to Huckabee.  

This came about because evangelicals don't consider mormons to be christian and they don't think Giuliani is moral.  So they turned to the baptist pastor who they were sure of.

The idea that Hillary, who the GOP thinks is a lesbian spawn of Satan, is able to bridge a religious divide is absurd on its face.  She and Bill, if not of Satan, are certainly related to the father of lies.  See this link of facts regarding Hillary's problem with the truth.

http://nationaljournal.com/taylor.htm

My question becomes How would this line of attack help or hurt Huckabee in the general.  I know some on here aren't afraid of him, but he terrifies me against any of our candidates... Southern and conservative brings out the crazies.  If they get an Anti-Gay bill on a lot of states as in 2004, it could be troubling.  

Bush NEVER went this far when it came to religion.  It was there, but not to this extreme (and we later found out all of his talk of christian values was bullshit as many suspected)

Will this turn off part of the population or will they embrace him?  

So far, Huckabee in serious trouble in NH although the Dem race is too close to call...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/12/o bama.newhampshire/index.html

Why doesn't Huckabee have to explain the ridiculous tenets of his religion? I would love to see Huck and Mitt go back and forth until everyone following the story said something like "yeah, why do we believe all of this insane shit?"

The beauty of Scientology and Mormonism is that we can see how a religion begins. And we can then guess that in the past, some charismatic fellows also started Islam, Christianity and Judaism. And not with some deified blessing, but with a little knowledge, a lot of demagoguery, and a hint of charm and hubris. To ignore that reality would be like looking watching your child grow from birth, but still insisting that you were never a newborn or a blastocyst---of course you were always a thinking person! And of course these other religions are false, but mine really WAS the group ordained by God above!

*sorry for the snark

Huckabee seems to forget that Morman are the most loyal GOP voting block of all.

Less than half of the 7MM Mormans in the US live in Utah.  Many live in swing states such as NV, CO, AZ, and NM.

If Romney gets taken down because of his religion by the "Christian Leader" Huckabee bests him in Iowa then we Democrats has a one in a lifetimw opportunity to "convert" many Morman voters who now see how they are truly viewed by the Fundamentalist Christians tht have come to dominate the GOP.

I suggest that Senators Reid, Obama and Edwards pay a visit to Brigham Young University and present an inclusive message and reintroduce the Democratic Party to the LDS faithful.  If we could convert 10%-20% of the Morman population in the western swing states it could pay major dividends next November.

The root of the problem for christians is not so much that he's mormon.  It's that mormons and Mitt himself claim that they are christians and christians do not generally believe that mormons are christians.

This very quote that you gave raises eyebrows from almost any christian that is somewhat educated in their faith:

"However, Latter-day Saints believe that God is our Father in Heaven. Before we came to this world, we all lived as spirits under his care and guidance. We believe that God begat or created the spirits of Jesus, Lucifer, and all of the human family as his children."

There are so many differences here with mainstream christian doctrine and tradition that I can't even begin to address them.  Which would not matter if mormons did not claim to be christian.  They do, however, which is the problem.

All of this, of course, has very little to do with governing- but does influence how people think.

the church spokesperson explained it fully and honestly right there in the article.

it's not romney's "move." and huckabee will suffer for dirtying his hands with this.

btw, there's a good diary on this topic at dkos here (not mine):

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/12 /05045/099