Voters, Romney said, are not going to choose a president "based upon their faith or what church they go to." The former leader of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and former governor of Massachusetts said again Wednesday he would not distance himself from his faith.

When asked why he mentioned the word "Mormon" only once during his Dec. 6 speech on "Faith in America," Romney said, "actually we prefer the name, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mormon used to be a nickname and I don't use it a lot."

Huckabee's wasn't the only comment made about Mormonism to surface after Romney's speech at the George H.W. Bush Library and Museum in College Station, Texas, that was intended to confront concerns about his membership in the LDS Church. On Dec. 7, Lawrence O'Donnell, a panelist on "The McLaughlin Group," said Romney didn't take advantage in his speech of the "opportunity to distance himself from the evils of his religion," calling the faith "racist" and "ridiculous."

Neither the LDS Church nor Romney have responded to O'Donnell's statements. The LDS Church did issue a statement earlier in the week in response to Huckabee's question about Jesus and the devil.

"We believe, as other Christians believe and as Paul wrote, that God is the Father of all. That means that all beings were created by God and are His spirit children. Christ, on the other hand, was the only begotten in the flesh and we worship Him as the Son of God and the Savior of mankind. Satan is the exact opposite of who Christ is and what He stands for," the LDS Church statement read.

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