Posted on 01/12/2008 11:57:40 AM PST by mngran2
Much of the national leadership of the Christian conservative movement has turned a cold shoulder to the Republican presidential campaign of Mike Huckabee, wary of his populist approach to economic issues and his criticism of the Bush administration’s foreign policy. But that has only fired up Brett and Alex Harris.
The Harris brothers, 19-year-old evangelical authors and speakers who grew up steeped in the conservative Christian movement, are the creators of Huck’s Army, an online network that has connected 12,000 Huckabee campaign volunteers, including several hundred in Michigan, which votes Tuesday, and South Carolina, which votes Saturday.
They say they like Mr. Huckabee for the same reason many of their elders do not: “He reaches outside the normal Republican box,” Brett Harris said in an interview from his home near Portland, Ore.
The brothers fell for Mr. Huckabee last August when they saw him draw applause on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” for explaining that he believed in a Christian obligation to care for prenatal “life” and also education, health care, jobs and other aspects of “life.” “It is a new kind of evangelical conservative position,” Brett Harris said. Alex Harris added, “And we are not going to have to be embarrassed about him.”
Mr. Huckabee, who was a Southern Baptist minister before serving as governor of Arkansas, is the only candidate in the presidential race who identifies himself as an evangelical. But instead of uniting conservative Christians, his candidacy is threatening to drive a wedge into the movement, potentially dividing its best-known national leaders from part of their base and upending assumptions that have held the right wing together for the last 30 years.
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Kool-Aid is good!
I’m not doing your research. You are way overstating Huckabee’s political positions and tossing out exaggerations with the Christian label and I find it most offensive. I will proudly vote for Huckabee if Hunter doesn’t gain ground. Huckabee is singing the tune of a lot of voters. Thompson is a loser in the first primaries. He is way down in the polls. And he is just stooping to slander. Other than the politically obsessed, voters don’t like that much negativity. Enjoy the club you have joined. I won’t slander your Christianity just because I disagree with which Republican candidate you support.
What ever happened to saving souls. Now its saving Gaia.
You want to see their goal, got to Europe and look around. Take lots of money, you will need it for the fees alone.
This idiot and his band of socialist need to be stopped NOW.
The vote of a 19 year old counts just the same as a 99 year old.
Can you say yikes.
“If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.” (Luke 16;31)
Thank you.
I needed that.
It’s no wonder this verse is in the Bible:
Matt.7:14
[14] Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
I just HATE false doctrine and false preachers leadings others astray. Just HATE it. Righteous anger is also not a sin ... before I go to bed, I will let it go ... and place that burden in Christ’s hands.
There’s been a lot of over-reaction to Mike Huckabee’s rise. He ins’t my first choice, and I’d rather have someone else as the nominee (preferably Fred Thompson). But he isn’t THAT bad.
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And...I will crawl to the polls and vote for him if necessary to keep Hillary out of the White House.
Thompson started it all by stopping his attendance of church...He’s already on the record in mid-’07 for saying he only attends church worship when he visits his mom. (IOW, he has no church home.) “
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I didn’t know that. In any case, he’s a nice person even if he isn’t a Christian.
LOL!
So, are you saying that the only place that one can worship God is in a particular building called a church?
He’s speaking the truth even if the BLIND, “religious left” doesn’t like
Considering Jesus said the "world will know you are my disciples by the love you have for one another." There's no danger of Christian testimony flowing from FR.
No, that would be the secular left. The religious left are people who exploit religion in order to expand the nanny state and class warfare. That description fits Huckabee to the Tee.
Members of the religious left have varying positions on social questions like abortion and homosexuality. Some of them line up the the secular left on these issues, others do not.
I know FRed hasn’t slandered anyone. I just want Loose Lips to have to deal with posting lies. [Personally, I think said FReeper is about to cry with all of the ugly truth about her man scHmUCK.]
Ha! Why are you here, then? Aren’t you out of place, Counselor?
Damn fools should listen to those who've had the experience. Just like Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Ho Chi Minh, Huck depends on those long on enthusiasm but short on brains.
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