Is the wayward Republican Mike Huckabee now his party's best hope?Ariel Levy - 28 June 2010
At 15, Huckabee encountered alternative take on God. A young couple offered Bible Study and for them, Christianity was not a cultural expression, but a personal relationship with God.; Huckabee was attracted to the emphasis on love over fear.
- Evangelical essentially means people who have a belief in the authority and veracity of the Bible.
- Fundamentalism tends to but the focus on God's judgement.
- Evangelical is more about being "grace" centered--we're all sinners, we're all screwed up, and we all need help--that's why we keep Jesus.
In the Seventies, disappointed with President Carter and faced with the legalization of abortion, the visibility of the gay-rights movement and women's lib, and the dissociation of sex from marriage, the Christian right became politically galvanized.
Huckabee doesn't have the money to mount a serious bid for office and has failed to cultivate many of the people who do.
In the Right Thing, he writes: "To be truly pro-life means that we should be just as much concerned about the child who is eight years old and living under the bridge or in the back seat of a car.
According to Huckabee, a person who believes God created man has a world view that is absolutely irreconcilable with that of someone who believes man created God. And either by numbers or persuasion, one side of this polarized culture will defeat the other in setting public policy. The is the defining paradox of Huckabee: his adamant resistant to being branded a zealot paired with his insistence that faith defines character and, consequently, has an essential place in government.
Before 1967, marriage was defined in much of the US as a relationship between man and woman of the same race.
