Mike Huckabee is keeping mum on what he thinks about Mormonism, the faith his chief opponent in Iowa, Mitt Romney, is a member of, according to a report now from the AP:
"I'm just not going to go off into evaluating other people's doctrines and faiths. I think that is absolutely not a role for a president," the former Arkansas governor said during a week in which religion has become an important issue in the Republican presidential race, particularly in Iowa.
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On Tuesday, Huckabee sidestepped when asked what he thought about the view of some Christian evangelicals that Mormonism is a cult.
"I don't think it's relevant to the presidency. I really don't," he said. "You know, I get all these questions about somebody else's religion. I only want to address the ones about my own, and I think some of those get a little bit almost unfortunately laborious because, you know, we ought to be talking about education and health care and energy independence and all these other things."
While he said he respects "anybody who practices his faith," Huckabee said what other people believe - he named Republican rivals Romney, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton - "is theirs to explain, not mine, and I'm not going to."
He also resisted wading into theology when pressed to explain why some evangelicals don't view the Mormon faith as a Christian denomination.
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