Posted on 12/31/2007 9:55:48 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Mike Huckabee, a Republican relying on support from religious conservatives in Thursday's hard-fought presidential caucuses, on Sunday stood by a decade-old comment in which he said, "I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ."
n a television interview, the ordained Southern Baptist minister and former Arkansas governor made no apologies for the 1998 comment made at a Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Salt Lake City.
"It was a speech made to a Christian gathering, and, and certainly that would be appropriate to be said to a gathering of Southern Baptists," Huckabee said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
He gave the speech the same year he endorsed the Baptist convention's statement of beliefs on marriage that "a wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ." Huckabee and his wife, Janet, signed a full-page ad in USA Today in support of the statement with 129 other evangelical leaders.
The former governor, who rallied Christian evangelicals to make him a surprise force in Iowa, has put his faith front and center in his campaign. His stump speech sounds like a pastor's pitch from a pulpit. Campaign ads emphasize faith and call him a Christian leader. He frequently quotes Bible verses.
As his fortunes have improved, Huckabee has faced a drumbeat of questions and criticism about his gubernatorial record and the role of faith in his administration. He also has made some missteps while trying to fend off a challenge -- and critical TV ads -- from Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and Mormon whose faith unsettles some religious conservatives.
Four days before the caucuses Thursday, a new poll found Huckabee's surge may have stalled; his once double-digit lead over Romney has evaporated. Private polling shows the two in a dead heat.
The television interview was Huckabee's only campaign appearance Sunday.
With the media throng following him having grown immensely, Huckabee scrapped a public event at a church in favor of attending a private service closed to reporters. Instead of courting voters, he hunkered down to film new TV ads, perhaps spots responding to Romney's barrage of critical commercials.
As recently as Friday, Huckabee insisted he wanted to run a positive campaign. He also reserved the right to respond aggressively.
Those skeptical of the role of faith in his presidency, he said, should look at his record in Arkansas.
"I didn't ever propose a bill that we would remove the Capitol dome of Arkansas and replace it with a steeple," he said. "You know, we didn't do tent revivals on the grounds of the Capitol."
As a woman, the thought of submitting to the Huckster... I’m feeling sick.
If he wants to take the nation back for Christ I’m all for it- as long as he does it from the pulpit and not the Oval Office.
Ephesians 5:21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
People always forget the next paragraph in Ephesians 5:
(v. 25) “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her...”
That preaches! ;-)
HAHAHAHA I wondered when this was going to show up at FR. If another candidate said that it would have been reported before he got the sentence out of his mouth and there would have been virtual rioting on the blogs and web sites.
This guy is deliberately dividing Americans along religous lines to acquire political power. It is sick and disgusting. He might as well be Benny Hinn or Peter Popoff.
Oh brother... submit to my foot, jackass.
No way he’s going to win. It’s all a big media song and dance. The MSM loves this as it gives them a chance to paint the GOP as Christian Taliban, playing into the cultivated fears of the bi-coastal viewers and readers.
Ultimately this helps McCain and Guilliani as there is sure to be a backlash against not just the Huckster, but anyone perceived as “too religious” in the GOP races outside of the Bible Belt.
Think Huckster is going to win GOP races in Connecticut (where this article appears), New York, New Jersey or Florida? California? Washington?
Not a chance.
Don’t care, he governs as a tax and spend, big government, meddle-in-your-life-liberal nuff said.
awww jeez... there goes the independent feminazi vote... (can't help laughing over Huckabee's statement)
Personally I find Huckabee’s domestic policy to have an arrogant bunker mentality. ;-)
One thing about the Huckabee/Romney religious issues, is that the media talks about Romney’s imagined religious attacks against his Mormonism, while in reality Huckabee’s religion is truly under open, vicious , constant attack.
Christian bashing is so normal in America, that it really isn’t even usually noticed.
OK...I’m certainly not a Huckabee supporter, but this is totally unfair.
What he said in the context of a religious gathering should not be used to clobber him over the head with in a political campaign.
And, I don’t see anything particularly offensive with the sentiments expressed anyhow. Hardly sectarian, really.
Anyway, I say elect though because a woman chooses the leader of the home. If someone goes off on a power trip..well..they can be counseled or impeached:')
Absolutely correct!!
But please notice that there is no prerequisite for one or the other... they are commands not agreements (not, wives, submit to your husbands because they love you and serve the Lord.. nor, Husbands, love your wives because they submit to the authority the Lord gave you....)
Oh yeah, he would be a GREAT CANDIDATE. Gonna win alot of votes with that one. Sure, its not like we can lose 49 states like effing Mondale. (sarcasm)
PS - I know that this is a belief in the Baptist church and is inline with Hucksterbee's religion. This will be fodder for the general election.
“Ephesians 5: (v. 25) “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her...”
Preach it, Sister!
I’m quite the independent type, but this nation never would have LEFT being “Under God” had we had more men in the population that stood up to the NOW Hags and the pig-in-a-poke they sold us years ago.
Yeah. Yeah. Women should’ve been knocking their looney heads together, too.
I may sound like a One Note Wonder on this issue, but I do blame a lot of our social ills on the fact that we got away from what is RIGHT and HOLY and ultimately went with what “feels good.” I’ve made my share of mistakes and have watched other women of my generation do the same; I have a divorce behind me, but finding the right man to love, respect, cherish, build a FAMILY with and be a helpmate to has made a world of difference in my life.
I wish it for every God-fearing woman out there. Don’t sell yourselves short, Ladies! :)
Wives submit to husbands, yes, but that's not what the headline says.
And this is the command to husbands:
I agree. Its disgusting.
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