A pretty chilling line up of three quotes involving Mike Huckabee and one likely result of his faith guiding him perhaps too fully as Governor of Arkansas.
LA Times: After being released, DuMond moved to Missouri, where less than a year later he suffocated the mother of three in a Kansas City suburb. Police suspect that he killed another woman there as well.
NRO: when the woman Dumond raped looked Huckabee in the face and told him he would strike again -- The meeting ended, and Long, a Republican, could tell the governor was unmoved: "Most of what I think about him would be unprintable. His actions were just about as arrogant as you can get."
And why?
Allah via Ace: Pastor Jay Cole, meanwhile, was working to help DuMond. Cole said he talked to “probably a hundred people” about his hope of winning DuMond’s release, turning foremost to the evangelical community. He said many evangelicals were encouraged that DuMond had claimed a religious conversion, and that many joined Cole in writing to Huckabee about DuMond’s situation. The clincher, he said, was their belief that DuMond had been “saved.”
In a word - misguided.
Jailhouse conversions not to be believed. Preachers and Pols cant change their spots.
Posted by: joeb | Sunday, December 09, 2007 at 05:53 PM
Down like a $5 crack whore, Huck will be going.
Posted by: Yoda | Sunday, December 09, 2007 at 07:42 PM
Jailhouse conversions not to be believed.
Whether they are believed are not is God's business , It does not mitigate punishment.
Posted by: Mark in Spokane | Sunday, December 09, 2007 at 11:17 PM
"--- Whether they are believed are not is God's business , It does not mitigate punishment. ---"
Amen, preach it!
Because thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and the Eternal King:
"Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." (Genesis 9:6, KJV)
Therefore, Gov. Huckabee has failed as a governor, and is unfit to be President of these United States.
Posted by: seekeronos | Monday, December 10, 2007 at 12:31 AM
Perhaps Huckabee was moved by the spirit of forgiveness but it sounds to me like it was a sop to his base.
Posted by: Ralph | Monday, December 10, 2007 at 01:21 AM
Forgiveness comes from God for his sins, but that does not overturn a verdict and a sentence imposed by the state:
For the truly converted sinner (who is on death row) will die, and be re-united with our Lord and his in the Resurrection.
Posted by: seekeronos | Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 02:14 AM