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May 12, 2011

USA Today: Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney: Mormons of a different strain?

by Sarah Pulliam Bailey
USA Today

 A new article paints potential presidential candidate Jon Huntsman as purposefully vague about his Mormon faith. Huntsman, who has spent two years in Taiwan as a Mormon missionary, said his faith was "tough to define" in a piece from Melinda Henneberger at Time magazine.

As for whether or not Huntsman still belongs to the Church of Latter-day Saints, I know less than I did before I asked him. ("I'm a very spiritual person," as opposed to a religious one, he says, "and proud of my Mormon roots." Roots? That makes it sound as if you're not a member anymore. Are you? "That's tough to define," he says. "There are varying degrees. I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides.")

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