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• Mitt Romney is a Mormon, and a member of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS).
• Mitt Romney is the fifth Mormon to try for presidency.
• Romney studied at a church sponsored University in Utah,
Birmingham Young University.
• When he was nineteen years old Romney worked for two and
half years in France as a Mormon missionary and also assisted in
managing the affairs of the mission.
• Romney once stated that religion was quintessential to
freedom without pointing to any particular faith.
• In his own words he said "Freedom requires religion,
just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of
the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and
commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish
alone."
• Comparing his stance to that of John F. Kennedy's famous
address in 1960, Mitt Romney said 'Like him, I am an American
running for president. I do not define my candidacy by my
religion. A person should not be elected because of his faith nor
should he be rejected because he believes in my Mormon faith and
I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers --
I will be true to them and to my beliefs,"
• In his Faith in America speech on December 16th 2007,
Mitt Romney said "No candidate should become the spokesman for
his faith. For if he becomes president he will need the prayers
of the people of all faiths."
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• Mike Huckabee is a Baptist.
• Mike Huckabee attends church at Rock Creek in Little
Rock, Arkansas.
• Huckabee strongly believes in the infallibility of the
Bible, as a result of which he rejects evolution.
• As a teenage boy he led his own Southern Baptist group
at the Beach Street First Baptist Church in Texarkana.
• In 1989 he was elected the president of the Arkansas
Baptist State Convention and the youngest person to hold this
office.
• Huckabee is quoted by The Jewish Week as saying, "I
didn't get into politics because I thought government had a
better answer. I got into politics because I knew government
didn't have the real answers that the real answers lie in
accepting Jesus Christ into our lives."
• Apart from the eight years Huckabee spent as the
Governor he was extremely involved with the church and affairs of
religion.
• Huckabee started off his religious career as a staffer
for James Robison, a very well known evangelist.
• In the book that he wrote called "Character Makes a
Difference" he says The Ten Commandments are divided into two
sections--the vertical laws dealing with man's relationship with
God and the horizontal laws dealing with man's relationship with
others.
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