The Romney campaign is angry about The Romney campaign is angry about Mike Huckabee's musing in the Chavets piece, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?" Many evangelicals, as I alluded to in this week's FundamentaList, believe that such a heretical filial relationship is a bedrock of the Mormon faith. Romney hasn't addressed that theological question, but the Mormon church denies it. The Huckabee campaign says "the full context of the exchange makes it clear that Governor Huckabee was illustrating his unwillingness to answer questions about Mormonism and to avoid addressing theological questions during this campaign." So the question remains why, if he admittedly doesn't know much about Mormonism, why he would let that little nugget of apostasy -- so sensational for Mormonism's evangelical critics -- drop at all. --Sarah Posner
