Mike Huckabee will also enter the competition on Dancing with the Stars. After discovering that the partners of Shannon Elizabeth and Adam Carolla (Julianne Hough and Derek Hough)are Mormon, Governor Huckabee sees it as his duty to enter the competition as the Christian dancer.

“If either of these couples win the competition, it would legitimize the cult,” said one enthusiastic Huckabee supporter.

“Truth be known, I’ve got two left feet and I condemn dancing, but I didn’t know anything about immigration or economic policy when I ran for President to get the Mormon guy out” said Gov. Huckabee, “But if either of these couples try to outdance me, I will charge them with negative dancing and the Hucksters will rally behind me.”

Engages in the same blind prejudice which it accuses Huckabee of holding? Yes, yes it does.

you can come to that conclusion only if you believe this piece was a broad swipe at all evangelicals.

it isn’t.

although the fake quotations in this post sound outrageous, every single paragraph is based in something i have experienced in the last six months or so watching mitt romney and mike huckabee court the same socially conservative voters in the republican primaries. i assure you, everything is completely realistic, and that is why writing it was such an enjoyable and cathartic experience.

between november and february, i was a regular reader of mike huckabee’s campaign blog and the blogs of some of his more ridiculous supporters, where mormons were called satan worshipers and the church of jesus christ called a cult. i heard people express the fear that if a mormon were elected president, somehow that would result in mass conversions to the church.

i did not target all evangelicals, american idol fans, or kansans with my comments. i targeted this specific group. but the post wasn’t really even about huckabee supporters, or the fact that many of them were deluded. this post was about mike huckabee’s silly posturing during the republican primaries. those, which even you must be sharp enough to discern, were direct analogies to real history, not the product of “blind prejudice.”

nice try, though, at remote psychoanalysis.

Maybe if we all, Mormons and Evangelicals, could lighten up a bit we’d have better political culture. Mixing up religion and politics is a bad idea anyway, witness Obama’s current troubles and Utah politics. I moved to Utah 7 years ago and the acrimony between LDS and other religions/non religious is unbelievable.

The social naivety (not always a bad thing) that is a side effect of “being in the world but not of it” has left some LDS people as seeming a bit weird or awkward. “Home school” is a good way for them to help them see it is social awkwardness not cult drinking kool-aid that makes some Mormons seem strange.

Anyway thanks Travis for sharing this clever British level deadpan humor!