December 24, 2007

Does Mike Huckabee Care About the Catholic Vote?

One would think so, but if he does, courting anti-Catholic preachers on the eve of the Iowa Caucuses probably isn't a smart move. Some Catholics aren't too happy with Rev. Huckabee's recent coziness with Rev. John Hagee, who they consider "militantly anti-Catholic":

In a video discussing the biblical book of Revelation, John Hagee suggests the Pope is the anti-Christ, and that the Catholic Church is "The Beast"...

Hagee sees anti-Semitism as being born out of the Catholic Church...

"The Crusaders were a motley mob of thieves, rapists, robbers, and murderers whose sins had been forgiven by the pope in advance of the Crusade ....The brutal truth is that the Crusades were military campaigns of the Roman Catholic Church to gain control of Jerusalem from the Muslims and to punish the Jews as the alleged Christ killers on the road to and from Jerusalem."

Huckabee took the pulpit in Rev. Hagee's church just yesterday, lauding Hagee as "one of the great Christian leaders of our nation" ten days out from the Iowa Caucuses. Seems like a dumb move to me.

By Ragnar Danneskjold, Typical Bitter Gun-Clinger at 02:44 PM | |