In God We Bust
December 15, 2007 at 9:09 am
From today’s Washington Post profile of Mike Huckabee, two different approaches to addressing politics and religion.
A bad way:
“I didn’t get into politics because I thought government had a better answer,” he [Huckabee] told a group of pastors on the eve of the 1998 Southern Baptist Convention. “I got into politics because I knew government didn’t have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives.” He concluded that speech with words he says he’d phrase differently today: “I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ.”
A good way:
It was another huge gathering of evangelicals in Dallas that reignited Huckabee’s interest in politics. In 1980, he and 15,000 other pastors and conservative Christians gathered at Reunion Arena in what is often characterized as a political “coming-out party” for the evangelical movement. …
Ronald Reagan, who had just won the Republican nomination for the presidency, was the event’s keynote speaker. And he brought down the house by famously telling the believers: “I know you can’t endorse me, but I want you to know that I endorse you.”
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