Young Evangelicals for Huck
Saturday January 12, 2008
Categories: Evangelicals, Republicans
NYT reports that young Evangelicals are getting excited about Huckabee, to the chagrin of the old guard. Two young Evangelical adults, Brett and Alex Harris, have founded a pretty great online site called Huck's Army, to network grassroots Huckabee supporters:...
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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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"Behold, the Kingdom of God is at hand."
Heretics for Huckabee!!!
I mean...
let's give the Evangelicals and Catholics some help...
I may vote for him...
the way he embraces the "social gospel" is encouraging...
vote faith hope love joy peace to all...
McCain/Huckabee '08
I think reading the tea leaves of the Corner Blog we Huck folks can see good signs. Hardly no post since 4:55 pm and they do post on Saturdays :)
Perhaps they have caught a flight to Michigan to hold up signs on street corners in a final last ditch effort
Nationally syndicated conservative political commentators (George Will, Charles Krauthammer, et al.) absolutely hate Huckabee. Will can't stand his economic views and Krauthammer doesn't like his unabashed expression of the Christian faith. The Republican establishment is going to do everything humanly possible to keep him from getting the nomination.
It is worth considering that there is no such thing as the "conservative movement" anymore, at least if it is defined by low taxation, limited government, limited foreign involvement, and individual liberty. The involvement of evangelicals in the GOP (whose reading of the gospel causes them to refuse to accept the liberal democratic notion that religion is a private affair) and the Bush administration's runaway spending and imperial foreign policy are both testament to that. And if that's the case, it means that the GOP is open to a visionary with the desire and ability to reshape the party (and conservatism) in a new way. If Huckabee can overcome the establishment opposition to his candidacy, he may be that person.
Andrew C. Thompson
www.genxrising.com
Huck's Army. How cute. They sound like the sort of people of which the American social commentator Hank Hill famously said: "Can’t you see you’re not making Christianity better, you’re just making rock n’ roll worse!".
Ad lapidatum ;-)
"They value marriage and family as the first cell of society"
No, they value SOME marriages and SOME families. They tend to bear false witness about mine.
I'm an evangelical pastor working mainly with people under the age of 35. What is often surprising to older evangelicals is that younger ones really don't give a rat's behind about what Dobson and Robertson think about politics, or much of anything else. This plays into the evangelical divide over Huckabee. Younger evangelicals have different heroes than the old guard.
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