[snugs]

Well that should cause fur to fly but why is the question relavant is Brownback a Mormon?

[Miss Marple]

No, Brownback is a Catholic and th e Roman Catholic Church, as I understand it, does not recognize baptisms from the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints.

How did Brownback answer? The question was obviously meant to divide the Republicans.

[Phsstpok]

Well that should cause fur to fly but why is the question relevant is Brownback a Mormon?

Reporters always use this type of question to fish for sound bites they can use to attack someone.  If he says that Mormon's aren't Christians then he can be cast as a religious fanatic intolerant bigot.  If he says that they are then they think that can be used against him by pissing off conservative Christians who don't feel that way.  It's a lose-lose situation they always try to put Republicans or conservatives in.