Bill Bartel, The Virginian-Pilot, June 6, 2009
Two leading voices of the Republican Party’s evangelical wing visited Rock Church on Friday for a forum aimed at recapturing some of the movement’s political momentum.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee urged Christians to get involved in politics to preserve the presence of religion in American life.
“I think this is one of the most critical moments in American history,” Gingrich said. “We are living in a period where we are surrounded by paganism.”
They and other speakers warned about the continuing availability of abortion, the spread of gay rights, and attempts to remove religion from American public life and school history books.
Gingrich and Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, argued the rights of Americans stem from God and to ignore that connection is perilous. The two were among several speakers, including former U.S. Senate candidate Oliver North, at the three-hour “Rediscovering God in America” event. The event was closed to reporters but was broadcast live on God.TV, an evangelical Web site.
Huckabee told the audience he was disturbed to hear President Barack Obama say during his speech in Cairo, Egypt, on Thursday that one nation shouldn’t be exalted over another.
“The notion that we are just one of many among equals is nonsense,” Huckabee said. The United States is a “blessed” nation, he said, calling American revolutionaries’ defeat of the British empire “a miracle from God’s hand.”
The same kind of miracle, he said, led California voters to approve Proposition 8, which overturned a state law legalizing same-sex marriages.
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p of v // June 7, 2009 at 9:00 pm |
God TV.
Rupert Murdoch is going to be upset at you for not mentioning TBN, which he owns alongside Fox News. But then again, you probably just forgot he owns Zondervan right alongside Harper as well. Tax-exempt status for religious politicians. You have all the breaks imaginable, and you STILL lost to Obama!
I feel your pain…
Dear Homosexual Pagan Penguins… « “Gone Fishin’: Postcards From God” // June 8, 2009 at 1:59 pm |
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