Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has described the $828-billion federal stimulus package as “anti-religious.”

Politico.com reports that in a Feb. 9 email to supporters that was also posted on his blog, Huckabee wrote, “The dust is settling on the ‘bipartisan’ stimulus bill and one thing is clear: It is anti-religious.”

Specifically, Huckabee attacked a provision that’s in both the House and Senate versions of the stimulus bill. It bans higher education funds from being directed to a “school or department of divinity,” Politico.com reported.

Huckabee, a leader of the Republican Party’s Christian wing and a GOP presidential candidate in 2008, said in his email, “You would think the ACLU drafted this bill.”

At the conclusion of the email, Huckabee urges supporters to support his HuckPAC organization, in order to help support its work in “calling out our volunteers who can make a difference by churning out the phone calls and emails to let those on Capitol Hill know that we’re outraged that they would take such a cheap shot at people of faith.”