Why Huckabee poses a dilemma for pro-family leaders
Perspectives: Why Huckabee poses a dilemma for pro-family leaders (OneNewsNow.com): “Among pro-family leaders, though, there is some hand-wringing because they worry that Huckabee — who is the candidate the followers of the pro-family movement are obviously behind — is unelectable. Pro-family leaders such as Gary Bauer and Tony Perkins would prefer to pick a winner, and be seen as the guys who made him a winner. However, they don’t yet see Huckabee as a winner, so they’re hanging fire.”
So to go back to my original point: all of this poses a problem for pro-family leaders such as Gary Bauer and Tony Perkins, who have been “hanging fire.” And for leaders such as Lou Sheldon, Bob Jones III, and Jay Sekulow, who are supporting Romney because of pragmatism, not principle. There is some wisdom in waiting, as Bauer and Perkins are doing, to let the process work. But the Romney supporters, I fear, will be judged by history as having sold-out their Christian birthright for a mess of Mormon porridge.
And all of them have to answer this question: If all they do is follow, then what makes them leaders?
Gee, I think I said the same thing over a week ago. They want to pick what they think will be a winner so it makes them look good rather then to back one of their own who is Christian Conservative because he might not win.
If Mike Huckabee starts looking like a winner watch how they all of a sudden get enlightened about him. What makes these people “leaders” is the secular media. If I was Mike Huckabee these “Christian leaders” that would not support a true Chrisitan for office would never be on my team.
Its time for Christian Conservatives to find some new leaders. For example Chuck Norris, has been named as one of the top influential Conservatives in the nation. It is time that Christians and media paid more attention to people like him. He endorsed Mike Huckabee. Who really cares what those “leaders” who over twenty years could never deliver a real Christian into office in spite of all their hype about having a “moral majority”. The Best they could do was bring in George Bush by the skin of their teeth and he turns out to a hertical Universalist.
Date posted: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 3:14 pm | Under category: Christian discernment, cowards, politics
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This is extremely well thought out. Thanks for your candid and appropriate response to this sell out of values by the same people whose leadership once garnered us great gains, but now only seem to be pandering to the most electable person. They are power seekers at this point. It is rather disgusting. I have had my fill of Bauer, Schlafly, Sekulow, and others that call themselves leaders and continue to abandon Mike.
It is a very good article. I agree with the points it makes, except about Mike Huckabee. He is a big supporter of Rick Warren”s Purpose Driven movement:
http://spm100.wordpress.com/2007/07/13/religion-and-politics-james-sundquist-on-mike-huckabee-and-rick-warren/
We don’t need another universalist president.
I am not a supporter of Rick Warren. I have written several articles making that abundantly clear. However, neither Rick Warren nor Mike Huckabee are Universalists unless they just changed their theology and did not tell anyone else about it.
Over half of Evangelical Christianity thinks the purpose driven movement is positive. If you make a non essential methodology for evangelism and Christian works the litmus test for true Christianity, Christian conservatives will not be able to elect anyone.
I believe much of what James Sundquist says about the purpose driven movement is true but James also has his own methodology for Evangelism and Christian works that many in Evangelical Christianity would not fully support.
To Don: You’re right. As soon as I posted my comments I realized that universalist was the wrong term to use. Warren is a dominionist, which I disagree with him about, but I have no evidence that he or Huckabee are universalists.
I’m undecided about Huckabee at this point. There are many things I support that he says, but there are a few things about him I’m unsure about, such as his prior standing on immigration that Ann Coulter pointed out. Also, his support of the Fair Tax, which sounds good, but would be disastrous if implemented.
Your point is well taken that if we use non-essentials of the faith as litmus tests, we will not be able to elect a Christian conservative. Given the choices we have, I may end up supporting Huckabee, but after feeling duped by Bush, I am probably a little over-cautious at this point.
Hi James,
I share your concerns. I also think the Fair Tax would be a disaster but I do not believe Huckabee would have the support in congress to pass it anyway. I understand why he supports it. Not having a national sales tax or value added tax puts us at a huge trade disadvantage with other countries.
His present stance on immigration is that the border needs to be secured before we can deal with that issue. After that is done we do need a reasonable policy for those who are in this country.
After all, US polices opened the door for them to live and work here because business owners obviously wanted them here. So we need to face the issue and deal with the people we lured here in a civilized way.