“Even if Governor Huckabee had been crooked enough to say one thing and do another”
Ah, but he is. He feigned ignorance when he was the keynote speaker at the infamous 1998 SBC convention in SLC where the Baptists were on the hunt to convert Mormons. He knows what the Baptist position and claims about Mormonism are.
At least he exited on this quickly.
From what I heard Huckabee say, the reporter asked Huckabee some question on Mormonism. When Mike said that he didn’t know too much about it, the reporter Explained to him some of the beliefs of the Mormon Church. It was in this context that Mike asked the question.
All of you guys KNOW that the reporting on this has been disingenuous and misleading, but since he is not your candidate (and beating your candidate in the polls) you jump on the chance to trash Huckabee. It reminds me of the whole “Fred Admits He Won’t Win” smear. Pathetic.
“He knows what the Baptist position and claims about Mormonism are.”
Maybe his recollection of those claims was vague. Or maybe he wanted to confirm them with a reporter who’d been researching Mormon doctrine. Or maybe he was using a rhetorical question to keep a comfortable conversation flowing. It seems absurd to believe Governor Huckabee could have wanted that question on the record.
Too bad Huck's not a PRESBYTERIAN!
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/js_h/1/19#19
17 It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!
18 My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.
19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”
20 He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself lying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I went home. And as I leaned up to the fireplace, mother inquired what the matter was. I replied, “Never mind, all is well—I am well enough off.” I then said to my mother, “I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true.”