A month ago, Mike Huckabee had a theology degree.

People look at my record and say that I’m as strong on immigration, strong on terror as anybody. In fact I think I’m stronger than most people because I truly understand the nature of the war that we are in with Islamo fascism. These are people that want to kill us. It’s a theocratic war. And I don’t know if anybody fully understands that. I’m the only guy on that stage with a theology degree.

When Jim Geraghty wrote that Huckabee's claim that the New York Times reporter interviewing him knew more about Mormonism that he did was so much crap, Huckabee's director of research, Joe Carter emailed him this "clarification"

Governor Huckabee doesn’t have a theology degree. He only spent a year in seminary.

Also, it’s not surprising that he doesn’t know much about the specific beliefs of the LDS church. There aren’t a lot of LDS members in Arkansas; they comprise just .007 percent of the population (about 20,000 out of 2,810,872 people). Most Southern evangelicals don’t have much exposure to that particular religion. Even in seminary you’re not likely to study the LDS faith unless you take a class on apologetics.

My bullshit meter is redlining.

Its true that the southern states have rather small populations of LDS, which begs the question why the SBC is so exercised over the Mormon threat--enough to provocatively hold an annual meeting focused on the "Mormon threat" in Salt Lake City?

If seminarians don't study Mormons, is it safe to say that they don't study Islam either? Muslims constitute 1/6th the number of Mormons in Arkansas and Huckabee still managed to brag about how well he understood Islam.

For a Christian, he sure is a good liar. For a politician, he sure is a bad one.