A Pastor’s True Calling

Read this very carefully - it is meant to be instructive and NOT negative.

Bigot definitions - Pick whichever you want to use, but they all mean the same and they apply to most right-wing Republicans and so-called Christians.

a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices

a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.

One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own

And finally-

Real bigots can be distinguished from mere partisans or zealots by the fact that they refuse to learn alternatives even when the march of time and/or technology is threatening to obsolete the favored tool. It is truly said "You can tell a bigot, but you can't tell him much."

Huckabee needs to stay in Arkansas, with the rest of the regilious nuts. Soon we will be rid of the best dictator america ever seen. we dont need a person like huckabee near the white house.

Bospap, Pathdoc has done his homework. Two of the greatest founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, were Freethinkers. They enshrined the separation of church and state in our Constitution, and religious fanatics have been attempting to undermine it ever since. Our founding fathers began a new country based on this separation because they saw the damage done by those who used the arbitrary belief in gods to create the rule of man. Even today, one can see the backward nature of countries that mix religious fanaticism and politics freely. They are not good bed partners and never have been, due to the arbitrary (not based on irrefutable evidence) nature of belief systems.

ENOUGH GOD IN THE W.H.-GOD DOES NOT TAKE KINDLY TO B.S., LIES,OR KILLING,OR INVADING!
TIME TO TAX ORGANISED RELIGION IE: THE CHURCH,THE FOLLOWERS AND THE PRIEST, AND THE FALSE PROPHETS LIKE HUKABEE AND ROMMNY, OR KICK THEM OUT OF POLITICS!!
ITS FOR THE TAX PAYING CITIZEN TO DO!

Pathdoc, you should really check your history. Our founding fathers got their ideals from their religious principles. The difference is that our founding fathers got their principles from the teachings of Christ and not some wacked out self-proclaimed prophet. Those founding fathers were men very much like Mike Huckabee. Men who stood on their faith as a guide for their lives and country. You were quite correct however, when you said we need people who are guided by the ideals of our Founding Fathers.

Can't we just find someone to objectively manage this country without injecting all this religious BS?

Leaders whose decisions are guided primarily by religion are disastrous for their countries. Look at the Middle East. We need to elect people who are guided by the ideals of our Founding Fathers not by radical religious principles. This is the only way our country will stay great. Electing someone like Huckabee would be a disaster and I personally would be ashamed.

I am sick of backwards southern republicans. Our nation needs a new direction.

Huckbee-Tancredo will win bigin the first round.

Should Oprah give equal time to other Candidates?

a.-Blacks have no sense of fairness, she will never give equal time to other candidates.

What a hatchet job. Did you give Huckabee a chance to "explain" the ethics charges? No. The gift registry everyone has a hissy fit about was set up so that Mrs. Huckabee's friends could give her a house warming. Since the stores at that time did not have house warming registries, they signed up for the marriage registry (Huckabee says it was a little more appropriate at their age than signing up for the baby registry). And yet the Arkansas papers tried to make it look like a greedy governor tried to get people to give him money to furnish his house. What!!? Oh, and did you give Huckabee a chance to talk about Max Brantley and his vendetta? No. You simply took what others said and reported it as fact. Does your magazine give the same credence to the National Inquirer that you do to the NY Times? Of course not. And yet, you gave Max Brantley's anti-Huckabee rantings a NY Times-style credibility by reporting that Huckabee's responses to Brantley show that Huckabee is "thin skinned." Read Brantley's strange, angry diatribes against Huckabee and you'll wonder what it is that makes him dislike Huckabee with such passion. There's probably a lot more to the story than you reported. I don't know what it is, but I'd sure like to know. Try to do a little more research before you print stories. And on the Dumond story - governors in Arkansas can't pardon anyone. Huckabee neither paroled, nor pardoned Dumond. The parole board INVITED HIM to a meeting to discuss his views on clemency. THE BOARD brought up the Dumond case. Huckabee answered. Yes, he did support his release, but to imply that there was pressure does indeed say something about Huckabee's powers of persuasion. If he could persuade a Clinton-appointed parole board to do something they did not want to do, they're too weak-minded to be on the board and should have been fired. All of this information is out there. If reporters would do a little work instead of simply repeating what they see written in other publications, we might actually start to trust the media again. Or maybe not.