https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to mike huckabee en https://religiondispatches.org/2018/06/23/dehumanizing-huckabee-tweet-another-echo-dangerous-tribalism There is a direct line from tribal epistemology to dehumanization that can blind even those religious people who claim that “God is love.” Sat, 23 Jun 2018 09:18:47 EDT Bradley Onishi efb2aa79-f8fb-42f9-aedf-1f9db699fdfb https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/16/party-religious-liberty-botches-debate-religion-and-constitution Remember when the presidential election, or the Republican primary, at least, was going to be about religious liberty? About how Obergefell v. Hodges eviscerated the religious freedom of “Bible-believing Christians,” who would need the big, bad overreaching government’s protection from… Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:50:04 EST Sarah Posner 92c5004d-85c3-4b4a-b968-c718c0e1f71e https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/26/trump-pulls-huckabee-religion Donald Trump, Saturday, October 24, 2015: I’m Presbyterian. Boy, that’s down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don’t know about. I just don’t know about. Trump, Sunday, October 25, 2015: I would… Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:11:33 EDT Sarah Posner 074b8f4a-76f4-4514-b832-59d5aa0f2f20 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/19/god-hates-nags-why-gods-name-westboro-protesting-kim-davis Members of the infamously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) arrived in Morehead, Kentucky today to picket the Rowan County courthouse, workplace of Kim Davis, the county clerk and “religious liberty” martyr who rose to fame by refusing to issue marriage… Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:21:13 EDT Rebecca Barrett-Fox ea08a479-b5f0-4802-b5ce-17278ede543d https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/30/huckabee-says-obama-pretending-be-christian Somewhere on the floor of the Arctic Ocean there is a titanium flag on a tiny flagpole, dropped in 2007 from a passing Russian submarine. Recalling the Spanish conquistadores’ arrival on a Caribbean beach, that romantic gesture symbolizes Russia’s territorial… Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:28:39 EDT Carlos Wilton 9cefb9d5-ebb0-4e1b-bbcc-bd7786a80045 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/09/why-kim-davis-has-missed-her-moment Years ago, I remember Christian right leaders fretting about pastors going to jail if they expressed their anti-gay views; when that didn’t come to pass, they fretted about churches losing their tax-exempt status. These worst case scenarios never happened, because… Wed, 09 Sep 2015 04:39:37 EDT Sarah Posner 23fb23ae-b485-4dc1-9a33-6eddfb2f1ff6 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/03/only-religion-question-reporters-and-debate-moderators-should-ask-presidential UPDATE: Following this morning’s hearing, Kim Davis has been taken into custody by U.S. Marshals for contempt of court. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, not known for shying away from hot-button religious culture war battles, “visited by phone” with Rowan… Thu, 03 Sep 2015 10:17:33 EDT Sarah Posner c617dfe5-4be2-494c-8dfe-27ebec918609 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/07/29/will-huckabees-ovens-comment-be-end-his-candidacy Alright, Governor Huckabee, since you asked… After Mike Huckabee, who portrays himself as perhaps the most loyal friend Israel has in American politics, told Breitbart News that President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran “will take the Israelis and… Wed, 29 Jul 2015 05:45:21 EDT Sarah Posner ebd64d8e-2166-47aa-8055-ceb98e1a7527 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/28/huckabee-calls-civil-disobedience-utterly-misreads-mlk-jr Mike Huckabee has joined the ranks of those invoking Martin Luther King Jr. to legitimate civil disobedience in response to the Supreme Court’s decision legalizing same sex marriage. As the former Arkansas governor declared Sunday morning on ABC’s “This Week,”… Sun, 28 Jun 2015 03:31:18 EDT Peter Gathje 6acfa205-c29d-4f5e-b608-a3b6179481df https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/05/transitions-caitlyn-jenner-gender-identity-and-christians-behaving-badly-again Emma Green has a solid piece at The Atlantic detailing religious reaction to Caitlyn Jenner’s appearance in Vanity Fair. It’s mostly what you’d expect: one conservative Christian blogger called Jenner “sick and delusional,” and Roman Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of… Fri, 05 Jun 2015 12:20:38 EDT Daniel Schultz b7a944c5-2bc0-4e25-b4c0-2c68973c8d1b https://religiondispatches.org/2015/05/05/mike-huckabee-meet-amy-schumer-and-matter-tony-orlando Perhaps you are too young to remember Mike Huckabee’s 2008 presidential run. If so, you’re definitely too young to remember Tony Orlando. Who? If you were alive (and sentient) in the 1970s, you must have heard Orlando’s smash hit (with… Tue, 05 May 2015 02:05:10 EDT Sarah Posner 24ad4460-6d45-44cc-bece-b839c141b754 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/03/09/evangelicals-looking-walker-do-nothing-2016-election When speaking to religious audiences, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker likes to remind people that he goes to church and knows his Bible. These reminders frequently come as Walker seeks to distinguish himself from political opponents in Wisconsin—the ones, he claims… Mon, 09 Mar 2015 03:33:26 EDT Sarah Posner 6e34d549-07bf-4cec-8e9e-ecaab7e8e33e https://religiondispatches.org/2015/01/27/bid-turn-pastors-politicians “I saw that the skills of a successful politician are the same skills of a successful pastor. The skill set is about the same,” evangelical powerbroker David Lane tells David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network. Charitably, one might think… Tue, 27 Jan 2015 02:38:32 EST Sarah Posner 74d454f8-e76d-411f-81c3-38a9ed09e421 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/01/21/santorum-and-huckabee-question-authority One hears a great deal about conservative Christians — especially the ones running for the highest office in the land — respecting moral, spiritual, and legal authority. The Bible is inerrant, the Constitution is divinely inspired, America’s downfall is due… Wed, 21 Jan 2015 03:06:51 EST Sarah Posner 28eabe40-cece-4e95-872d-653aaad7961d https://religiondispatches.org/2014/10/06/american-values-and-standing-israel On Capitol Hill yesterday, a glorious fall afternoon, John Cougar Mellencamp’s ” R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.” and the Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ U.S.A.” blared from a stage designed for a photo opportunity for a political figure yearning to be on a… Mon, 06 Oct 2014 11:39:17 EDT Sarah Posner 2a147adb-9a10-44e5-8448-9271f373c6f1 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/01/14/new-disciples-report-south-carolina Across South Carolina—and indeed the country—voters attend tiny churches, Bible studies, and prayer meetings. Their collective views on the candidates are much more difficult to measure and assess. And while they may be consumers of Christian talk radio, or televangelism, or other religious media, they are not lock-step followers of the decisions of elites who met at a ranch in Texas, or of Jim Bob Duggar, or of anything but their own received revelation. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 05:11:31 EST Sarah Posner 1077c48b-0a06-424d-83a6-95cf633a4e6f https://religiondispatches.org/2012/12/20/everything-was-better-when-we-had-god-our-schools Wasn’t it? Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:39:45 EST Hollis Phelps 8d9a1cb8-2c32-4a3c-93e3-1fc57fba3158 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/12/19/video-why-huckabee-dobson-are-wrong-newtown Listen up evangelicals and conservative Christians. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:20:12 EST Anthea Butler 45652193-0bb3-4613-ae8e-a778c1dbe2a8 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/12/17/guns-and-babies-what-newtown-does-not-teach-us Listen up, conservative pundits. You can’t say that because God isn’t in a classroom, that we have reaped what we’ve sown—and then ask for guns in schools at the same time. Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:52:21 EST Anthea Butler f96405af-ac77-4fe8-9cd1-b8cdff40aaad https://religiondispatches.org/2012/11/14/david-petraeus-king-david Mike Huckabee’s biblical analogy fail. Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:45:17 EST Sarah Posner 851b17d8-d831-45d7-97f9-e22752b9a094 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/02/15/evangelicals-more-favor-religious-exemption-catholics “We are all Catholics now.” Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:37:49 EST Sarah Posner 3b49b70e-dc12-4094-b677-18ef38610565 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/01/21/which-one-has-religion-problem-gingrich-or-romney Huckabee calls for a Romney religion speech. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:45:17 EST Sarah Posner 8ad84d78-eed8-4d9d-b689-36cd414faf1d https://religiondispatches.org/2011/12/14/huckabee-teams-citizens-united-promote-fetal-personhood Film premieres tonight in Des Moines. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:02:03 EST Sarah Posner 406c66ec-fa81-4781-b3a8-cb9c92e42be3 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/12/12/gingrichs-apocalyptic-fantasies-again His cross-denominational fearmongering. Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:05:27 EST Sarah Posner 23f0d9b6-c3e7-4018-a4e1-a2005a7f2851 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/09/13/religion-and-gops-immigration-problem The religious right is trying to tell them something, and, for once, they’re not listening. Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:12:09 EDT Sarah Posner a026e055-573d-4412-a953-5fca7714643d