Evangelicals have unwittingly embraced another liberal presidential candidate
by Selwyn Duke
NewsWithViews.com
When evangelicals embraced Jimmy Carter during the 1976 presidential campaign, they didn’t know he would repudiate the Southern Baptist Convention a generation later. Today the very same constituency has glommed onto Mike Huckabee, and I can’t help but lament how history truly does repeat itself.
One can see why the man I dubbed “Huck the Huckster” would appeal to evangelicals. He’s a pro-life Southern Baptist minister with charm, wit and a good-ol’-boy, yuck-it-up style. Yet this resplendent exterior only serves to obscure the stain of liberal sin. Huck would be a disaster – a disaster – on immigration. In fact, in 2006 he compared those who would crack down on illegals to antebellum slave masters, http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/12/6/110901.shtml?s=icsaying,
One of the great challenges facing us is that we do not commit the same mistakes with our growing Hispanic population that we did with African Americans 150 years ago and beyond. We’re still paying the price for the pathetic manner in which this country handled that.
Outrageously, it seems Huck can’t distinguish between denying citizens the protection of the law and requiring non-citizens to follow it.
According to the president of the immigration reform group NumbersUSA, Roy Beck, this isn’t out of character for Huck. Says Beck,
“He was an absolute disaster on immigration as governor. Every time there was any enforcement in his state, he took the side of the illegal aliens.”
This was evident when Huck condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids on chicken plants in Arkansas. But his stance was no surprise. The chicken industry’s powerful lobby was said to be a supporter of Huck’s, and he and Tyson Foods Chairman John Tyson http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2005/06/30/News/323746.html in pandering when speaking to the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), a group sympathetic to illegal immigration. While advocating what seemed to be an “open-door policy,” Huck espoused the Golden Rule, saying,
“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”
My response? Huck, if I were in another country illegally, I would fully expect its citizens to demand I go home.
But I wouldn’t prevail on Huck. This is the man who said that Arkansas needed to cherish diversity in culture and language. He’s the man who opposed a ban on providing state services to illegals and supported in-state college tuition rates for them He’s the man who criticized an Arkansas measure to require proof of citizenship to vote. Like President Bush, he’s a man who would compassionately conserve us into Mexico North.
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