Faith and politics has played a prominent role in this presidential race, but some are wondering if the biggest religion card player - former Baptist minister Mike Huckabee - has gone too far with mixing religion and public duty.
A look at the former Arkansas governor's records shows that he did not shy away when he felt God needed to be defended in legislation.
In 1997, after a tornado ripped through the town of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, then Governor Huckabee had spent over three weeks battling his state's legislators over legal terminology in a disaster insurance bill that referred to natural disasters as "acts of God".
Huckabee argued that God could not be blamed for the region's destruction, countering the centuries-old legal terminology and the state's legislature, the General Assembly. The dispute made local headlines and created tension with other state legislators, some of which called him "petty".
"'Petty' is the best word to describe him," said Dennis R Young, a state representative at the time who sponsored the relief measure, according to the Los Angeles Times. "In these kinds of things, he'd make mountains out of molehills."
Yet the small-town pastor turned Arkansas governor did not give in and in the end the two sides agreed on the substitute term "natural causes".
The faith of Huckabee, unlike most other politicians, has always been the centerpiece of his politics - as seen on day one of his tenure as Arkansas governor.
His inaugural day began with a prayer service at a Baptist church in Little Rock which he later recalled as "almost like an ordination service".
During his time as governor, 1996 to 2007, Huckabee banned smoking and swearing in the governor's office and used the Bible to explain his concern for the environment, his stance against abortion, and his efforts to improve the lives of African-Americans in his state.
