Separation of religion and politics is often talked about but in the presidential campaign both sides are using it to gain votes in the next election. The GOP feels without evangelicals participating the election is all but lost. The evangelicals act like spoiled children who won’t participate if they don’t get their way. Pooh, Pooh!

The self-righteous religious wing of the GOP would rather stay home then vote for someone they deem not worthy to their religious convictions but would stand by and let Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or John Edwards occupy the White House with the Left-Wing Nut House in charge of Congress.

Mitt Romney, one of the most qualified candidates across the board, felt obligated to give a speech explaining his faith and how he separates religion from governing. Romney spokesman Kevin Madden said Romney would not debate candidates on their faith or question their faith.

Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, “Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?”

The article, to be published in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, says Huckabee asked the question after saying he believes Mormonism is a religion but doesn’t know much about it.

If Huckabee wants to play the evangelical card he should come clean and explain his statement. If you don’t understand something how can you write about it in a major newspaper?

The authoritative Encyclopedia of Mormonism, published in 1992, does not refer to Jesus and Satan as brothers. It speaks of Jesus as the son of God and of Satan as a fallen angel, which is a Biblical account.

A spokeswoman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Huckabee’s question is usually raised by those who wish to smear the Mormon faith rather than clarify doctrine.

“We believe, as other Christians believe and as Paul wrote, that God is the father of all,” said the spokeswoman, Kim Farah.

“That means that all beings were created by God and are his spirit children. Christ, on the other hand, was the only begotten in the flesh and we worship him as the son of God and the savior of mankind. Satan is the exact opposite of who Christ is and what he stands for.”

Enough already, Mitt Romney isn’t Satan and Mike Huckabee is an ill-informed master at orating from the pulpit with misinformation. The GOP must do better than Huckabee if they wish to be credible and they better start talking about issues important to America not the Right-Wing Nut House of evangelical hypocrites.

When called on to explain himself Huckabee repeatedly ducks the question.

“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 explains.

While he said he respects “anybody who practices his faith,” Huckabee said that what other people believe “is theirs to explain, not mine, and I’m not going to.”

Mitt Romney has explained himself while Mr. Huckabee only wants the issue when it’s convenient for him to discuss it. We want to hear the Mike Huckabee explanation, not smoke and mirrors from a campaign spokesperson.