“at gunpoint” – violence, check
“young people” – against noncombatants, check
“to force them to listen to David Barton” – to advance a political agenda, check and final check. Advocacy of terrorism.
Anyone catch The Daily Show May 16?
Here’s Huckabee playing Cat Scratch Fever with Fox’s good friend Ted Nugent, who …“makes the pussy purr with a stroke of his hand”
Oh, and here’s Ted waving machine guns around at an earlier concert, suggesting “Obama, suck on one of these ya punk”, “Hey Hillary, you might want to ride one of these, you worthless bitch”. Also calls Dianne Feinstein a worthless whore.
Tommy Douglas was a Baptist preacher before he led the first socialist government in North America as the Premier of Saskatchewan, followed by moving into federal politics and being instrumental in introducing Canada’s single payer universal health care, amongst other things. I don’t recall him forcing his religious views on anyone at gunpoint.
Is there a reason people are taking this comment literally when it’s obviously a figure of speech? Criticize Huckabee for endorsing Barton if you want; there’s no point in twisting his words. When Michelle Obama talks about the epidemic of childhood obesity, she’s not saying overweight children are like a disease.
She’s not saying that the children are a disease, but their obesity is. And even if Huckabee wasn’t speaking literally, it’s still a danger sign when a politician chooses to use terroristic figures of speech.
Actually, Huckabee is known for nothing so much as pardoning every inmate who “found Jesus” in the slammer.
Right… but if she talked about an epidemic of obese children, she might be… and that’s a lot closer to what Huckabee was saying.
Exactly. Theonomists/Reconstructionists strongly believe that the penalogy of Mosaic Law must be instituted full on especially for murder.
Translation please.
I don’t really give a shit which religious school of thought is guiding his actions. The point is that the state has no business commuting sentences on the grounds of religious conversions (whether or not they’re real).
So you are saying he didn’t implement his religious views while in office in the first post, and that he did implement them while in office in the second post?
Technically, in the second post he just said that he didn’t implement the religious views he is accused of having. He just didn’t dispute the fact that he did implement some kind of religious view.
Perhaps. That’s why I asked for a translation earlier, which I didn’t get.