# Huckabee hides his sermons

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-hides-his-sermons/431509>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 28, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-hides-his-sermons/431509 "2007-12-28T19:26:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-hides-his-sermons/431509/161 "2008-03-16T10:10:28Z")

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[QUOTE=ElvisL1ves]  
It isn’t fair, sure. The press corps only goes after people they personally like if they get \*seriously \* worried about how they’d fuck the country up (they never got to that point with Bush).  
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I’m not complaining about the press. I’m rebutting a position taken by Dopers in this thread. What the press does is neither here nor there AFAIAC.

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**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-hides-his-sermons/431509/162 "2008-03-16T11:35:43Z")

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[QUOTE=RTFirefly]  
Sounds like Huck doesn’t want to acknowledge in broad daylight the things that Jayzus told him were fine to say in a small church in West Bumfuck, but instead is essentially disowning those words.  
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Or maybe the sermon transcripts were indeed destroyed. Are you saying that he’s lying? If so, where’s your evidence?

And heck, even if he truly were refusing to release these transcripts, I wouldn’t blame him for declining to release them. It’s a no-win situation. If he declines, he’ll be accused of hiding something. If the agrees to release them, he gets accused of refusing to draw a firm line between church and state – and opens himself up to being quoted out of context by those with an anti-religious agenda. Either way, he loses.

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-hides-his-sermons/431509/163 "2008-03-16T14:39:34Z")

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[QUOTE=JThunder]  
Or maybe the sermon transcripts were indeed destroyed. Are you saying that he’s lying? If so, where’s your evidence?  
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I thrashed all that out in this thread two and a half months ago; I’m not going to go digging back into it now.

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> And heck, even if he truly were refusing to release these transcripts, I wouldn’t blame him for declining to release them. It’s a no-win situation. If he declines, he’ll be accused of hiding something. If the agrees to release them, he gets accused of refusing to draw a firm line between church and state – and opens himself up to being quoted out of context by those with an anti-religious agenda. Either way, he loses.

I don’t blame him either; that’s not my point.

My point is, in light of the near-universal acknowledgement that the content of _Jeremiah Wright’s_ sermons are germane to Barack Obama’s worthiness to be our next President, it makes no sense to say that _Mike Huckabee’s_ sermons _weren’t_ germane to _Mike Huckabee’s_ worthiness to be our next President.

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