Evangelical Leader Skeptical on Huckabee, Praises McCain
Tuesday December 11, 2007
Categories: Mike Huckabee
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Governor Huckabee is certainly a candidate to be reckoned with. I believe we are seeing the final phase in the demise of "the leaders of the Evangelical Church" being pushed aside by the popularity of a candidate that inspires, motivates, and challenges the voter.
For too long we have waited for "the leaders" to tell us who to support. We don't need that kind of direction anymore. Because of their leadership or lack of leadership, I believe they have allowed a climate of fear and hate to permeate our country by not condemning the politics of fear concerning undocumented immigrants.
Huckabee brings a new sense of morality and justice to the political scene. He is not afraid to speak his mind and his position on immigration. While the other GOP candidates are all trying hard to out do Tancredo, Huckabee is willing to show some CHRISTIAN compassion and care.
Perkings, Dobson, & Bauer...do your Christian credentials count for anything other than political gain and visability? Where is your leadership, your Christian compassion, and your Bibilical position on caring for the stranger and alien amongest us?
Huckabee inspires voters in a time when we need a leader who is not cut out of the same old mold. His message is one of hope and good expectation.
What this country needs is Governor Huckabee....Praise the Lord and pass the votes this way toward Huckabee.
Tony Perkins is a hypocrite. His version of Christianity bears little resemblance to the Word preached by Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ never preached against homosexuality but did preach a gospel centered around "love thy neighbor." Perkins, on the other hand, seeks to strip homosexuals of full standing as citizens and to deny them rights accorded others. This is a hurtful and hateful act, no matter how the slick talker spins it.
Perkins uses the faith as a wedge tool to divide people, to condemn people who disagree with Republican dogma. When he meets his maker, Tony Perkins will have some 'splaining to do.
I don't understand how the political, Christian leadership of Perkins, Bauer, Dobson can support any other candidate, but Huckabee.
These leaders criticize Huckabee on immigration, but NumbersUSA says that he is better on immigration than Romney, McCain, and Guiliani. When this fact is pointed out to these leaders, their response it that he flip-flopped.
Well if flip-flopping is to be the yardstick, then they have all flip-flopped and none pass that test. Romney was for abortion, gun control, and gay marriage while governor, but against them now. Guiliani sued the feds to defend the NYC sanctuary city policy and is for gay marriage. McCain co-sponsored the amnesty bill and voted against the Defense of Marriage Act. Thompson took money from abortionists and abortion clients. All of these guys have changed their positions on key issues.
Huckabee is the ONLY one that has not flip-flopped on abortion and gay marriage. These are two of the most important issues that Perkins, Bauser, and Dobson have campaigned on. Then when it comes to pick a candidate, they completely throw out anything they have said in the past and make statements against Huckabee. Huckabee best mirrors the policies these Christian leaders have been speaking out against for years.
Perkin's comment about feeling slighted is probably the root of the conflict between Huckabee and the more fundamentalist Christian leaders. Huckabee is a Baptist, which is a much more staid tradition than that of Perkins, Bauer, or Dobson, who espouse variants of Pentecostalism. Huckabee almost certainly thinks that he is above these social movement activists on any measure of political experience or power, and he probably suspects that these unwashed fundamentalists could hurt his campaign.
Additionally, I think the sex issue is pertinent. Fundamentalist preachers have no oversight or authority evaluating their character and performance. Dobson, Bauer, and Perkins all hail from the close-knit group of independent fundamentalist Christians that brought us the likes of Jim Baker and Ted Haggard. Huckabee may be leery of getting close to people who could create a moral scandal. While Huckabee is as homophobic as any of these in his personal values and legislative behavior, I doubt Huckabee wakes up at night worried about gay marriage or homosexual activity. Perkins, Bauer, and Dobson, in contrast, seem obsessed with homosexuality to a point that is beyond regular run-of-the-mill homophobia.
Huck is a big government, big tax same old same old. He has nothing new to bring to the table, he releases rapists to rape again, and he is not worthy of being my president. My vote goes to the man of principal and small government, Ron Paul. Please just go back to hicksville, Huckester.
Well, I guess Huckabee is your Christian candidate if such doesn't require truth and honesty. In less than a week he's been caught in two flat out lies, about the conditions under which the rapist was granted parole, and then what he really said about aids victims and quarantine. And now he's given instructions that none of his sermons should be released to the public. Not to mention other potentially damaging statements (damaging for his overall image to the public), such as In August of 1998, Huckabee was one of 131 signatories to a full page USA Today Ad which declared: “I affirm the statement on the family issued by the 1998 Southern Baptist Convention.” What was in the family statement from the SBC? “A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.”
“Social conservatives alone cannot elect a president,”
Let's hope that goes for getting them nominated as well :-)
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