TIME Magazine’s Michael Scherer reports that pro-Huckabee pastors in Iowa have received anonymous letters warning that IRS rules against church-based politicking will land them “in the slammer.” Read one of the purported letters here. It’s as yet unclear who’s behind the letters.

The Drudge Report, on an anti-Huckabee crusade, carries a story from the Salt Lake Tribune about Huckabee’s official campaign blog hosting comments from anti-Mormon Huck fans: Some blog posts were littered with rhetoric about Mormonism. “As evangelicals, we cannot stand for this Mormon garbage to get into office,” wrote Chase Colasurdo. “They even believe Jesus…

The folks over at Evangelicals for Mitt noticed that in explaining his decision yesterday to pull an attack ad on Mitt Romney–strangely, he called a press conference to show the ad he was pulling–Mike Huckabee invoked a popular New Testament verse: “What does it profit you if you gain the world but lose your soul?”…

Today’s Washington Post story about Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney attending services yesterday in their respective churches includes this key line about Huckabee’s preacher strategy: On Friday, three national religious leaders backing Huckabee — Tim LaHaye, Michael Farris and Rick Scarborough — convened a conference call with Iowa pastors to urge them to use Sunday’s…

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