Tonight I ran into an well informed, articulate and intelligent young man who is home schooled. I am not surprised by his polish for he comes from a good family. His Father is a good man who, like many beguiled homeschoolers, supports Mike Huckabee. There likewise may be some kind of official connection between the family and the HSLDA organization, which would account for why Father and Son are such adamant Huckabee supporters. In the course of the evening I made the comment that Mike Huckabee was a Liberal Statist. The young man hurried over to me and asked me if he could talk to me about my comment. What follows is a paraphrase of our conversation.
Mark — “You know Mike Huckabee is not a Liberal.”
Pastor Bret — “Why sure he is Mark. When you look at his tenure as Governor of Arkansas the tax level went up significantly during his time in office.”
Mark — “But Pastor you don’t understand. Huckabee had to raise taxes in order to attract better teachers to Arkansas since the pay rate for teaches in Arkansas was among the bottom in the United States.”
Pastor Bret — “Mark, I thought your Dad would have taught you that it is wrong for the Government to create make work jobs. Public teaching is nothing but a government works project. If Governor Huckabee was Christian he would have, at the very least, encouraged parents to pull their children out of government schools instead of helping to perpetuate and bolster them by stealing from some people in order to give money to school teachers who are teaching our children with a anti-Christ theology. Increasing pagan teacher’s salaries is no Biblical reason for picking somebody’s pocket through increased taxation Mark.
Mark — “Pastor you don’t understand that one of those tax increases was approved by 80% of the people.”
Pastor Bret — “Mark, if 100% of the people voted to steal from one set of people in order to give the ill gotten gains to another set of people does it make it right for a Governor who claims to be a Christian to support that kind of legislation?”
Mark — “So you don’t think that they should have taken care of their roads?”
Pastor Bret — “Taking care of roads would be one of the legitimate exercises of government Mark. He could have taken the money the State stole from the people to give to teachers and used it for the roads Mark.”
Pastor Bret — “Now let me ask you a question Mark. How can Governor Huckabee not be a Liberal Statist in light of the fact that he wants to pay the state tuition cost for the children of illegal immigrants? Mark, where will the money come from in order to subsidize the education of the children of illegal immigrants? Naturally, it would come from the pockets of citizens of Arkansas who would probably prefer to spend their money on the needs of their own respective families.”
Mark — Silence.
Pastor Bret — “Mark, obviously you’ve looked at the issues and that being so how can you try and insist that Governor Huckabee is not a Liberal Statist when the President for the ‘Club for Growth’ said of him ‘Huckabee’s ten-year economic-policy record as the governor of Arkansas is mixed, at best. His history includes numerous tax hikes, ballooning government spending, and increased regulation.'(?) That sounds like a Liberal Statist by any objective standard.”
Mark — Silence.
Pastor Bret — “Mark, you also have to wonder about the presence as a key adviser on Huckabee’s staff of a high profile member (Richard Haas) of the Council of Foreign relations. I don’t know if you know much about the CFR Mark but it is an organization that is committed to a globalist policy which would result in the eclipsing of American Sovereignty. Certainly that is what we might expect from a liberal Statist.”
Mark — Silence.
Pastor Bret — “Finally Mark you need to keep in mind that Conservatives from Huckabee’s own denomination have said that the Governor never supported conservative causes when he was involved in the Southern Baptist denomination.”
Mark — Silence.
Pastor Bret — “You are well read Mark but you need to go below the surface. Mike Huckabee is a liberal Statist and he is all the more dangerous because he wraps all his policy talk in Jesus clothing. He actually may be the worst candidate in the field right now because so many of his policies are so far away from the Christian faith he is so constantly invoking.
Now, you and your family might want to consider Ron Paul. Congressman Paul is the closest thing to a Christian candidate in the campaign right now and he would be worthy of your support.”
For more detailed information on the perils of Mike Huckabee go to,
http://www.spunkyhomeschool.blogspot.com/
http://www.home-school.com/news/huckabee.html
Clinton and Gore are also Southern Baptists. And so is Al Mohler, so I don’t want to paint with too big a brush, but it seems that being both baptist and southern tends towards “compartmentalization.”
Huckabee, like Slick Willie, is from Hope, AR. From what I understand, this is a resort town, with Baptist churches on one side of ther street, and honky tonks on the other. If you doubt this ability to live on both sides of the street, just listen to country music for a spell. One track will be about “lovin’ Jesus” and the very next about whiskey and “cheatin'”
I wish a northern Papist like Pat Bucahanan were running. Perhaps the Constitution should be amended to bar Baptists from public office 😉
Robert,
Perhaps the Church should practice discipline so that high profile Christians who are holding blatantly non-biblical positions could be clearly seen as being out of step with the Christian faith.
Bret
As a Christian teacher in a public school who tries to be salt and light in a hostile place, I thank you for calling me a “pagan” who teaches an “anti-Christ” message.
Sounds perfect to me. I have read this post with a great pleasure. You should write much more often.
Wow! Cool news!Sounds a little weird, but interesting anyway. what do you guys think about it?
I have never seen anything that would look so disgusting. Why do people publish stuff like that? I don’t understand them!