E.J. Dionne Jr. is a senior fellow for governance studies at the Brookings Institution. His books include, as co-editor, What’s God Got to Do With the American Experiment?

Read a post from Time‘s Swampland blog about Huntsman’s June 2011 speech to the Faith and Freedom Conference.

In a June 9, 2011, interview at Patheos, evangelical Warren Cole Smith answered the many  critics of an earlier column he wrote explaining why he and other evangelicals should not support a Mormon candidate. A blog post at The Salt Lake Tribune parses the original column and provides links to alternate views.

Read a June 21, 2011, story at CNN’s Belief Blog about Jon Huntsman’s Mormonism.

Read an Oct. 3, 2011, column by Michael Gerson in The Washington Post. The piece, in which Gerson says that “A portion of conservative Christianity is unhinged in its condemnation, regarding Mormonism as a dangerous, secretive cult,” ran several days before pastor Robert Jeffress’ recent comments about the LDS church.

Read an October 11, 2011 article from Time about Governor Chris Christie’s endorsement of Mitt Romney.

Read an article in the Christian Science Monitor about the consequences of Robert Jeffress’ ‘cult’ comment to Rick Perry’s presidential campaign.

Read Richard Mouw’s CNN column in response to Robert Jeffress’ controversial Mormonism remark.

Read an October 8, 2011 story from CNN about Robert Jeffress’ response to Bill Bennett’s criticism of his Mormonism remarks.