Huckabee Won't...and Shouldn't Release His Sermons

Just to show you how weird this 2008 campaign has become, some lefties are upset that Mike Huckabee won't release his sermons from his days as a Baptist pastor:

Before beginning his political career, Huckabee was a Southern Baptist minister for 12 years in his home state of Arkansas. He assumed the pastorate at Immanuel Baptist Church in the town of Pine Bluff in 1980, at the age of 25. Six years later, he moved to Beech Street First Baptist Church in Texarkana. In both locations, Huckabee's energy, ambition, and skills as a communicator energized his congregation. Under his leadership, each church grew.

When asked for copies of the sermons Huckabee delivered at Immanuel Church, an employee there claimed none could be found. A Beech Street Church pastor's assistant maintained that much of the archival material from Huckabee's tenure as pastor had been destroyed during a remodeling. The rest, she said, was not available to the press.

When Mother Jones contacted the Huckabee campaign and asked if it would help make his previous sermons available, the campaign replied in a one-sentence email that it had received multiple requests for such material and was "not able to accommodate" them.

Lefties - if you want to hear sermons, go to church. Huckabee knows that the only outcome of releasing his sermons will be a phrase-by-phrase parsing of his words with every question at every press conference challenging him on some element or another of his preaching. It's not an appropriate discussion in a political campaign.

Romney will have much the same problem should he become the nominee. Although he was not a clergyman, I can assure you that his Dem opposition will make it their mission in life to educate the voting public about every little aspect of the Mormon faith, weird parts and all, and Romney will find himself constantly defending the stranger parts of his faith.

You almost begin to think our campaigns would be better served if candidates were agnostics.