Political Punctuation

This has nothing directly to do with the pursuit of happiness. Instead it has to do with the current political season, specifically with the teacup of hot water that Mike Huckabee found himself in recently. You might remember that in early December Huckabee, after being asked for his opinion regarding Mormonism, asked, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?" What a hue and cry we heard then. Mitt Romney was incensed. The LDS church cried foul. Huckabee apologized. Every pundit in the Western hemisphere weighed in on the significance of the question and the sincerity of the apology.
What nobody seemed to bother to ask was do "Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers"? Do they?
FAIR, a Mormon apologetic cite, lists the "Jesus-Lucifer spirit-brothers" criticism among the unfair attacks to be refuted. They trace the criticism to a couple of anti-Mormon apologetic sources, but how did those people get this (apparently) crazy notion.
It seems that in 1870 Brigham Young, whom the LDS hold up as a prophet, described Jesus and Lucifer as brothers. In 1945, Milton Hunter, another high LDS official referred to the pair as "spirit-brothers." We can find similar proclamations from LDS apostles John Widstoe, George Cannon, Joseph Merrill, Joseph Young, and Bruce McConkie, and another of their prophet-presidents, Spencer Kimball.
So what do the Mormon's teach today? Apparently they teach that all sentient creatures are in one sense "children of God" and therefore brothers and sisters. According to that logic, Lucifer-Satan would be a brother of Jesus. That's not my theology, but they're welcome to believe whatever they want.
Here's my point. If two Mormon prophets and a fist-full of apostles have published materials that pretty clearly state this as their belief, why should anybody take exception to Huckabee's quite natural question?