He seeks to occupy the highest office in the nation, but he secrets away the documents that could grant the greatest insight into his core beliefs, beliefs he publicly proclaimed before he adopted a politician's careful parsing.When a candidate chooses to wear his faith on his sleeve, he should not hide the details.
The former Arkansas governor casts himself as a "Christian leader" and preaches full sermons in churches - something Mr. Bush never did. When asked about his decade-old call to "take this nation back for Christ," Mr. Huckabee didn't retreat.
http://www.dallasnews.com/shar...
So where are the sermons? Mother Jones expounds:
http://www.motherjones.com/was...
Before beginning his political career, Huckabee was a Southern Baptist minister for 12 years in his home state of Arkansas. He assumed the pastorate at Immanuel Baptist Church in the town of Pine Bluff in 1980, at the age of 25. Six years later, he moved to Beech Street First Baptist Church in Texarkana. ***When asked for copies of the sermons Huckabee delivered at Immanuel Church, an employee there claimed none could be found. A Beech Street Church pastor's assistant maintained that much of the archival material from Huckabee's tenure as pastor had been destroyed during a remodeling. The rest, she said, was not available to the press.
Why is getting this information necessary? Because there is a movement within this country to turn America into a theocracy, and we need to know if Huckabee is a part of it. It's called various things: reconstructionism, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... and dominionism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
And some of its proponents advocate operating in secret, as in this example from our area.
http://www.loudoun.net/mainstr...
As Mainstream Loudoun pointed out in this book review by a Fairfax County author --
THE CHILDREN TRAP by Robert L. Thoburn
Robert Thoburn is a signee/non-committee member of the Coalition on Revival (COR), a think tank for religious right leaders. Their manifesto states under section 12, Education: "Work toward replacing all local public schools with private schools by 2000 A.D."In his book, The Children Trap, Thoburn claims that public schools constitute a "state-established church" which teaches the religion of humanism--a 'trap' designed to indoctrinate Christian children against their 'true faith.' Furthermore, politicians have enacted "laws that compel Christian families to send their children into unsafe, drug-infested, humanist-dominated, anti-Christian sink holes (public schools)." ***
Thoburn also recommends that Christians run for school boards, (but send their children to Christian schools). Once on the board, "The goal is to shut down the public schools, not in some revolutionary way, but step by step, school by school, district by district...." [using] "Termite Tactics" [such as]
G求 "Run on a platform of increasing school efficiency. This means cost-cutting."
G求 "Be an instant nice guy....be incredibly affable and friendly....You will need 'good guy' votes when you start gently pressing for...reform."
G求 "You can't destroy the system by yourself, so don't try. You can do your best to gum up the system with a smile on your face."
G求 ***
G求 Protest if a coach is being fired just because he has produced some losing teams. ("There is nothing like a losing sports record to cool the vocal minority of sports fanatics' support of the local high school.")
G求 "...keep alive the question of student safety."
When Huckabee said he wanted to take back this nation for Christ, what did he really mean?
Reporters need to start pressing Huckabee on this issue, and stop writing foolish stories about, e.g., how Huckabee likes playing the guitar.
p.s. Hillary needs to release her papers, too.