Is Mike Huckabee being a class act by declining to say what many evangelicals like him feel about Mormon doctrines and beliefs? The Associated Press reports that Huckabee, an ordained Baptist preacher, won’t say whether he believes Mormonism is a cult: I’m just not going to go off into evaluating other people’s doctrines and faiths.…

When Mitt Romney stands before the nation tomorrow to deliver his much-anticipated “religion speech,” evangelical Christians will be listening particularly intently. Though polls show that one in four Americans feel squeamish about voting for a Mormon president, an even higher proportion of evangelicals–more than one in three–feel uncomfortable doing so. They view the Church of…

Yet more evidence that Romney’s “Mormon speech” will largely skirt the Mormon issue, this time from the New Hampshire Times Leader: Mitt Romney said today he will not try to defend his Mormonism or teach any lessons about it during his planned speech on “Faith in America” on Thursday. He also insisted the speech is…

Will Mitt Romney’s much-ballyhooed “Mormon speech” this Thursday end up de-emphasizing Mormonism? That’s the word this morning from The Los Angeles Times: Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Monday that he would not focus on his Mormon beliefs in a major speech on religion this week and instead would discuss his concern that “faith has…

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