His call for abolishing the IRS is one of Mike Huckabee’s biggest applause lines. But might everyone’s least favorite agency clamp down on churches that are enthusiastic about Huckabee before he has a chance to shut it down? The Politico reported last night that the IRS has been stepping up enforcement of its rules prohibiting…

Family Research Council Action, Washington’s premier Christian Right advocacy group, yesterday issued a defense of Mike Huckabee in the face of what it called a “reverse religious test” sparked by Huckabee’s past statements about AIDS, homosexuality, and the need to “take this nation back for Christ.” With Huckabee surging in recent national polls, those remarks…

God-o-Meter would not ordinarily dredge up a nearly decade-old story on Mike Huckabee proclaiming the need to “take this nation back for Christ.” But God-o-Meter does not run the world; Matt Drudge does. And the lead story on The Drudge Report right now is a 1998 report in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette about Huckabee’s speech…

God-o-Meter is flattered to learn that Charles Krauthammer is a devoted reader! Here he is channeling GOM’s recent post alleging an anti-Mormon bias in Mike Huckabee’s refusal to answer the Is Mormonism a cult? question: Huckabee has exploited Romney’s Mormonism with an egregious subtlety. Huckabee is running a very effective ad in Iowa about religion.…

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