Fox: Why Huckabee matters
Monday January 7, 2008
Categories: Republicans
Russell Arben Fox is a close observer of populism, and though not a conservative, he has put together a rich and intelligent analysis of the Huckabee campaign and what it could mean for the future of conservatism and American politics...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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An American incarnation of Christian Democracy? Lord, have mercy. May it be so.
"Yes, yes, abortion and all that, but what about wages and health care and neighborhoods and schools? "
I am guessing Mr. Fox is a Roman Catholic. One of the reasons I felt compelled to search for some other religion and leave the Catholic church is because of the blind support for socialist candidates. One priest at Mass even said we had a choice between the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the Gospel of Rush. He said a lot of other things but that is for a different discussion.
I would classify myself as a compassionate conservative. The Bible says the poor you will have with you always. However......from the beginnings of Christianity, abortion has always been classified as murder. They had no idea about zygotes and such. But from the time of quickening, it was murder. There just is no other way around it. And Huckabee is the only candidate who understands that.
I am guessing Mr. Fox is a Roman Catholic. One of the reasons I felt compelled to search for some other religion and leave the Catholic church is because of the blind support for socialist candidates.
Note to John C: Russell Arben Fox is a Mormon.
John C: I'll grant that "abortion and all that" is a pretty indelicate phrase that should have been put differently; my point was not to be dismissive of the evil of abortion, but to claim that someone concerned about good government and family values ought to be legitimately looking at ways to enpower people, ways that will make the anti-abortion rights argument more easy to hear and be accepted. As for Catholicism, though a Mormon, the influence of the Catholic social democratic tradition upon my thinking is immense, as probably comes through in my writing.
I'm with Russell on this...Lord be praised if the Republican Party becomes home to the genuine christian-democratic public philosophy that many of we Americans crave. Lord be praised if the Democrats become that home. Lord be praised if He raises up a competitive Christian Democratic party.
Having been raised in the LDS Church myself and continuing my relationship to Mormonism within the Community of Christ, I can testify that Catholic Social Doctrine does indeed have a lot of appeal to an informed Mormon who understands something concerning the purpose of the US Constitution, as well as the inspired civic republican philosophy of the framers of the US Constitution and consideration of such Mormon social and economic innovations as the United Order.
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