A blast from the past

Mike Huckabee congratulates us on preserving our national igloo. (How's that project coming along, anyway?)

On a more serious note, while Ron Paul is (rightly) being savaged for associating with conspiracy fanatics and extreme-rightists, Huckabee - who, unlike Paul, has a realistic shot a winning the Presidency - is himself tied to some pretty creepy characters:

I read in Robert Novak’s column this morning that Mike Huckabee held a fundraiser earlier this week at the Houston home of Dr. Steven Hotze. As Novak notes, Hotze is “a leader in the highly conservative Christian Reconstruction movement.”

Christian Reconstructionists, for those unfamiliar with the term, are Religious Right radicals who believe that America, and the rest of the world besides, should be governed in accordance with strict Biblical law. And yes, that includes stoning adulterers. ...

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Meanwhile, Novak reports that among the members of the fundraiser’s host committee was Baptist minister Rick Scarborough. The founder of Vision America and a self-described “Christocrat,” Scarborough made news earlier this year when he argued that the HPV vaccine improperly interferes with God’s punishment of sexual license.

Damian P.

Posted by damian at December 21, 2007 07:25 AM