{"id":315,"date":"2008-02-05T13:45:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T13:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/02\/utah-mormons-hate-huck.html"},"modified":"2008-02-05T13:45:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T13:45:05","slug":"utah-mormons-hate-huck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/02\/utah-mormons-hate-huck.html","title":{"rendered":"Utah Mormons Hate Huck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"huckabeeromney.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/huckabeeromney.jpg\" width=\"274\" \/>Can you really blame them? From <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0208\/8322_Page2.html\">The Politico<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;overwhelmingly Mormon Utah has taken a profound dislike to the Southern Baptist preacher best known for his nice-guy persona.<br \/>\nThe wellspring of Huckabee hate is a now-famous Dec. 16 New York Times Magazine interview in which the former Arkansas governor, in an \u201cinnocent voice,\u201d is reported to have asked, \u201cDon\u2019t Mormons &#8230; believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?\u201d<br \/>\nTo Mormons, Huckabee\u2019s eyebrow-raising question represented not only a gross distortion of their beliefs but also a carefully calculated move by a Christian politician who surely knew better.<br \/>\nHuckabee\u2019s remark prompted Romney to call the comments \u201cjust not the American way\u201d on NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show.<br \/>\nHuckabee quickly apologized, saying that Romney\u2019s Mormonism had nothing to do with whether he should be president. With that, the candidates and the national media moved on to other topics.<br \/>\nIn Utah, however, all was not forgiven.<br \/>\n\u201cThere is a feeling that Huckabee has exploited a lot of the anti-Mormon sentiment,\u201d said LaVarr Webb, a political consultant and publisher in Utah.<br \/>\n\u201cThe feeling is that he would certainly know the answers to these questions that he\u2019s been asking sometimes,\u201d said Chuck Gates, assistant managing editor of Utah\u2019s Deseret Morning News.<br \/>\nAccording to Webb and other state political insiders interviewed by Politico, many Mormons maintain that Huckabee\u2019s apology did not go nearly far enough.<br \/>\nQuin Monson, assistant director of the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University, says many observers believe that \u201cevangelicals have rejected Romney, and that Huckabee is aiding and abetting that. &#8230; He\u2019s egging it on.\u201d<br \/>\nAs it turns out, this isn\u2019t the first time that Huckabee has rubbed Utahans the wrong way. In the summer of 1998, then-Arkansas Gov. Huckabee, along with fellow national church leaders, attended the National Southern Baptist Convention in Salt Lake City.<br \/>\nAt the time, the decision to hold the event in the shadow of the Mormon Tabernacle was viewed by many Mormons as an insulting stab directed at the very heart of the LDS church.<br \/>\nWorse, according to an account published in the Salt Lake Tribune during the convention, some 2,000 \u201cmessengers\u201d of the Southern Baptist Convention went door to door in Utah and proselytized, \u201carmed with questionnaires and their personal belief in Jesus Christ as their savior.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you really blame them? From The Politico: &#8230;overwhelmingly Mormon Utah has taken a profound dislike to the Southern Baptist preacher best known for his nice-guy persona. 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