Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
on the shooting in Newtown, Conn. which left 27 people, including 20 children
dead: “We don’t have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem.
What we have is a sin problem. And since we’ve ordered God out of our schools,
and communities, the military and public conversations, you know we really
shouldn’t act so surprised…when all hell breaks loose.”
Yo, Huck, if you really think
America is in a moral malaise because they’re not force-fed Christian prayer on
the taxpayer’s dime, then how about gun violence occurring in churches?
In October 2012, a former
maintenance worker at the World Changers Church in College Park, Ga. Shot and
killed a church volunteer in the church’s sanctuary during morning prayer.
In May 2009, an anti-abortion
activist murdered a physician who performed late-term abortions as the doctor
attended worship services at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita,
Kansas.
In July 2008, a man killed two and
wounded seven at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Church in Knoxville. The gunman
was motivated by a hatred of liberals, blacks and gays.
In August 2007, a gunman entered
the First Congregational Church in Neosho, Missouri and opened fire, killing
three people; the pastor and two deacons.
In December 2007, a gunman killed
two and wounded two at the Youth With a Mission center in Arvada, Colorado. The
same gunman killed three and injured three at the New Life Church in Colorado
Springs, Colorado.
In May 2006, a gunman killed four
people at the Ministry of Jesus Christ Church in Baton Rouge, La. Before
abducting his wife and killing her in a nearby apartment.
In March 2005, a gunman killed
seven members of the Living Church of God in Brookfield, Wis. during a worship
service.
In Sept. 1999, a gunman interrupted
a teen prayer rally at the Wedgewood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas and
killed seven people, including four teenagers.
So, Huck. When you talk about
ordering God from our schools and communities why have their been shootings in
churches? Wasn’t God present there?
This is a tragic time for Newtown,
Conn. The parents, teachers, school administration and community are reeling
from such a horrible and shocking loss. Instead of comforting those in need
(you know, like Jesus would do) you politicize the issue as is the agenda of
the 24-hour news media’s horde of talking heads.
Let me get this straight, Huck.
You’re saying because Sandy Hook Elementary School doesn’t have a religious
curriculum and is one of those secularist public schools you purportedly
despise, those 20 children and seven adults are dead?
So by somehow having school prayer
would somehow deflect the bullets, or at best, send the victims directly to
Heaven after they’re shot?
That’s cold, even for you.
Huck, you and the rest of your
slimy, theocratic ilk should sit this one out. You’re totally out of your
league. You’ve been giving reach-arounds to the gun lobby for years. Now that a
disturbed individual commits this heinous slaughter, you’re getting all self-righteous?
We don’t have a crime problem, a
gun problem or a violence problem?
What school shooting were you
watching today?
You holy rollers are all alike. You
spit fire and brimstone and are too quick with condemnation instead of
compassion.
The American people are starting to
come around. We’ve suffered through Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Aurora. We’ve
seen the media fall over themselves covering these mass shootings whenever a
disgruntled former employee goes bonkers and takes out half the company with a
semi-automatic.
Newtown is the final straw.
These were children, Huck.
Children.
20 kids who don’t get a chance to
grow up and experience life.
Instead of grieving with the rest
of us empathetic Americans, you go on television and blame the secular schools
for not teaching kids about God, as if that would’ve stopped Adam Lanza from
his deadly rampage.
How do you think the parents of
those children feel about you saying there’s no gun problem or violence
problem?
If you want to pray for someone’s soul
tonight, Huck, pray for your own.
Seriously.
Of course, you need a soul first.
2 comments:
Well said. It's a tragedy! It's not time for politics!
Well said. It's a tragedy, a horrible crime was committed on innocent lives. It's not time for politics!
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