Huckabee to host screening of God's Not Dead 2 to showcase challenges of religious liberty

Former Arkansas Governor, and presidential hopeful, Mike Huckabee will host the upcoming film "God's Not Dead 2" a day before the Iowa caucuses on February 1.

The Republican candidate will host the exclusive screening in order to showcase the cultural and social landscape that challenges religious liberty in the modern age, particularly for Christians.

Huckabee, 60, who is also a Christian minister, will host the film several months ahead of its April 1 premiere theaters in front of GOP leaders.

"God's Not Dead 2" is the sequel to "God's Not Dead", which was the highest grossing independent Christian film in 2014, earning $60 million at the box office.

It featured a college professor who tries to debunk the existence of God through philosophy, although by the end of the film, it was revealed that he was holding a grudge against God for the bad things that happened to him.

In the new film, where Huckabee is set to make an appearance, the plot revolves around a history teacher who faces controversy and the danger of termination from the school where she teaches because of an answer she makes to a student. The student reportedly asks her about the similarities between Jesus' teachings and that of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

She then replies that Christ's teachings were an inspiration to King in his 'non-violent activism'. The school officials would then include a civil rights group to find the teacher guilty for violating 'separation of church and state.'

"Cases like these – where the religious freedoms of everyday men and women are being restricted by courts and government agencies – are sadly quite common today," explained the film's producer, Michael Scott.