He might be dumber than he looks (which is pretty bad when you look like Gomer Pyle's first-cousin!).
Good question. Who made you St. Peter over Huckabee anyway?
I find some of the tenets of Mormonism strange, but I sure wouldn't want to offend voters in Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada with some dumb-dumb comment about their religion. If he couldn't understand the theology, he should just compliment the outward manifestation of their faith demonstrated by their patriotic and family-oriented upstanding behavior.
I guess you also fall into the "ignorant" category. (See my (b) category of posters on post #218). It documents that LDS do believe this)