Street Prophets

Ever Wonder Why Mike Huckabee Doesn't Give A Rat's Ass About Torture?

by pastordan

Fri May 09, 2008 at 01:18:10 PM PDT

Sarah Posner has one possibility:

What's the glue that's holding the Pentecostal-Baptist political] alliance together? Why, it's Mike Huckabee and Kenneth Copeland, [ well-known buddies -- but don't worry, no pastor-parishioner relationship there! Their relationship was cemented when Copeland used a gathering of pastors to help the struggling campaign scare up some needed cash in January. "I've seen you sitting with presidents and talking with them, and I believe that right now, you and your relationship with Gov. Mike Huckabee, for example, you representing the Pentecostals and he representing the Southern Baptists, are kind of holding this thing together single-handedly," said Wead. (Apparently Huckabee has an issue with financial secrecy as well, as he settled yet another inquiry by an ethics panel in Arkansas over secrecy of donors to his official portrait.)

Mike Huckabee: not a candidate, just a pastor and defender of the conservative belief system who's so busy using his influence to grease his palms that he couldn't be bothered to stand up for the guys getting waterboarded.

Your Christian values at work.

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Tags: Mike Huckabee, Kenneth Copeland, Torture (all tags)

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  • Cookie Jar (8+ / 0-)

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    ogre, Richard Bowser, vgranucci, dirkster42, grada3784, MaryKK, colloquial, waterdish

    No rat cookies, please.

    by pastordan on Fri May 09, 2008 at 01:18:38 PM PDT

  • Don't forget to (6+ / 0-)

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    Richard Bowser, vgranucci, grada3784, MaryKK, colloquial, waterdish

    SIGN THE PETITION.

    The Wine of Youth ferments this night in the veins of God - Alfred de Musset.

    by dirkster42 on Fri May 09, 2008 at 01:21:51 PM PDT

  • C'mon MIKe... (6+ / 0-)

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    Richard Bowser, vgranucci, grada3784, MaryKK, colloquial, waterdish

    ....it is not hard.Torture is evil and wrong.PERIOD!

    I supported you with my money and time.If you will not come out and condemn torture you are slapping me in the face.If water boarding is not torture then why are pilots and special operators exposed to it in training as an example of the tortures they may face if captured by our enemies?

    Pastordan,thanx for this.We do not see eye to eye on everything but I think we both want acountry that does what is right.There is nothing right about waterboarding and torture.If Huck is too afraid to adress this It makes me wonder who he is really working for.Centrist evangelicals like myself or the Christofascists.

    by ron faerie on Fri May 09, 2008 at 01:47:40 PM PDT

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    I have recently seen photos of prisoners in what are referred to by the benign-sounding name of "stress positions"  They had been stripped of their garments, bound at the hands and feet, left with open wounds and shackled in ways that would bring extreme pressure on the rib cage, and, if left long enough, no doubt slow and excruciating suffocation.  I could not help but think that these were the same elements that are reported in the Gospel retellings of the crucifixion.

    Please use your PAC to urge that our nation cease immediately such treatment of any individuals regardless of who, or what they are believed to know or have done.  And please urge that those who would treat the least of our brothers and sisters this way be brought to justice swiftly.

    Ut in Omnia Glorificatur Dei

    by MaryKK on Fri May 09, 2008 at 09:06:32 PM PDT

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