FRANK SCHAEFFER: Evangelical Mike Huckabee is Unfit for Command

[BradBlog]

FRANK SCHAEFFER: Evangelical Mike Huckabee is Unfit for Command
Former AK Governor, GOP Presidential Candidate, Fox 'News' Host Must Take Responsibility for Murder of Four Police Officers
'How many more godly goofs can this country afford?'

I have an odd connection to Huckabee. He told Katie Couric, during the 2007 primary race, that my Religious Right leader father's (Francis Schaeffer) book, How Should We Then Live?, was his favorite book. The book is credited (along with others my father wrote) for starting the evangelical wing of the anti-abortion movement.

In Huckabee’s more than 1000 pardons of criminals that prosecutors and victims objected to in Arkansas Huckabee most often cited his belief in “redemption” as his "reason." This belief was a result of Huckabee’s extreme and literal born-again fundamentalist views about people’s path to God. His religious views obviously trumped common sense. And this was a direct result of a theology known as "Dominionism" (or "Reconstructionism") where believers want to not just believe their religion privately but "take back America for God" in other words rule on the basis not of American law but the Bible. I explain this trend in my book Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don't Like Religion (or Atheism).

Huckabee freely mixes his ideas about church and state and how religion should shape policy. That brings up a question: should any religious fundamentalists ever be elected President by Americans who want them to do a good, sensible, moderate job, not use their office for expression of their pet religious fanaticism? And another: wasn't one already more than enough?...


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[livetohike]

1. Remember the Huckabee campaign ad with the light in the

background that formed a cross? The whole bunch of these Family type religious whackos needs to go, imo.

[TwilightGardener]

6. I remember that ad--creepy.

[icee2]

2. BS. Blame the state that let the killer out - WASHINGTON

If F.S. doesn't believe in redemption, he is some kind of RW GOPer. BBlog has been a suspicious site for a long time now - catering
to the worst kind of RWingers.

[Qutzupalotl]

5. What has BradBlog said that caters to right wingers?

And if they constantly catered to right wingers, why would they implicate Huckabee?

[csziggy]

7. Clemmons was convicted in Arkansas and sentenced to 95 years

Before Huckabee commuted his sentence and let him out. If he had served out his prison term in Arkansas, he would never have been in Washington state, would never have raped a child, and never have killed four cops.

Authorities in both states screwed up - in Arkansas charges were dropped because he had not been served with warrants on a timely basis even though he was sitting in an Arkansas prison. In Washington, he was let out on bail even with eight felony charges pending. There are indications that he was mentally ill, but he was evaluated and found competent to stand trial for the child rape charges.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010385617_webmansought29.html

This is a person who should have died in prison in Arkansas, not let out on the streets to endanger others.

[BradBlog]

11. "BBlog has been a suspicious site for a long time now"

"BBlog has been a suspicious site for a long time now"

Yes, we're very very suspicious! Don't tell anyone! We've been working for Karl Rove the whole time! Genius!

Yeesh.

But speaking of suspicious, amigo...

[AspenRose]

3. Ooooh

Recommended

[BrklynLiberal]

4. I : <3 : Frank Schaeffer

[izquierdista]

8. Frank hasn't lost the televangelist touch

"I explain this trend in my book..."

Which you can buy for $29.95, if you call the number on the screen right now. And if you join my book club, you also get......

[LeftyMom]

10. He's very good at pimping his book.

Every time he's on Maddow he manages to name drop the full title at least once in the segment.

[chill_wind]

9. We need Frank Schaeffer to tell us this?

[Kievan Rus]

12. Even his own party thought so

After Iowa, he didn't do all that well in the 2008 primaries.