No, Mike Huckabee probably shoudn't have asked the question, Mitt ... but please answer it yourself, at least!
Admittedly, Mike Huckabee shouldn't have asked the question of the New York Times as to whether Mormons believe (or don't believe) that Lucifer and Jesus are brothers, but ...
When Matt Lauer asked Romney the "Huckabee question"--to clear the matter up, Romney refused to answer and passed the question off to the Church of Latter Day Saints (the Mormon Headquarters in Salt Lake City). The Mormon Church then put out a formal statement that could not and did not deny that they believe that Jesus is the elder brother of Lucifer (go to the LDS website).
It would have been better for Romney to incorrectly say "No" or to even say "Yes, and so what?" than to defer the question to a "higher authority." I really don't want a President Mitt Romney asking his church if it's all right or not all right to change the tax structure or to invade God-knows-who.
That is scarier than the peculiar beliefs of the Mormon Church, in my opinion.
posted by Dr. Joe @ 5:59 AM
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I'm sure that Romney knows what he believes, which is likely to be identical to Mormon doctrines easily found at mormon.org and lds.org. I think that he just doesn't want to appear to be a spokesman or official representative of the church. He's a presidential candidate that just happens to be a member of the LDS church.
You are quite right. If the question dealt with the church's teaching and not his own, he was correct to deflect it.
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