• 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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