In response to the outrage over his question if Mormons believed Satan and Jesus are brothers, he pleaded ignorance, saying, “I don’t know much about the Mormon religion”. Via Ace, there’s this, which Hugh Hewitt received.

In 1998, the Southern Baptist Convention provocatively scheduled their annual meeting in Salt Lake City. The potential confrontation attracted a record number of mainstream media hoping for a dust-up (that never came). In preparation, the SBC distributed a 50 minute video entitled “The Mormon Puzzle” to 40,000 SBC congregations as well as publishing over 12,000 copies of a book entitled “Mormonism Unmasked.”

The keynote speaker?

Mike Huckabee.

Eenteresting. Uncorrelated has more:

The materials characterized Mormonism as a dangerous cult (a dehumanizing Evangelical perjorative) and a major threat to SBC interests. However it mainly instructed “messengers” on how to attack the beliefs of their Mormon targets. There was little doubt that this provocative action by the SBC was designed to be a showdown–the mainstream press sent its largest contingent ever to the Salt Lake City annual meeting, hoping for open warfare. In the end, Mormon church leadership simply encouraged its members to be courteous to their Baptist brethren and the story evaporated.

It is simply not credible that Mike Huckabee doesn’t know anything about the religion (you can almost hear him say ‘cult’ under his breath). The SBC has spent decades and millions of dollars fostering hatred of Mormons.

Huckabee may well have jumped the shark with this ill-advised remark.