Mike Huckabee cited Obama’s hostility to Christianity as the reason why the faithful should stay out of the military until he’s out of office.
The audio is from a leftist anti-conservative site:
Their transcript:
“This administration has had an open hostility toward the Christian faith,” he said. “And I know that sounds like a bold statement, Jan, but when you have a president whose administration orders its chaplains to put its Bibles away, not to pray in Jesus name, not to counsel people on the issues of sexual morality; when you have this attitude that is more about promoting gay marriage and gay rights in the military than it is about being able to protect religious liberty for those people of faith, it’s going to be hard to find people that are truly devoted people of faith and Christian believers and Orthodox Jews and others.”
“Why would they want to be in a military that would be openly hostile and not just simply bring some scorn to their faith, but would punish them for it?” he asked.
This led Mickelson to ask Huckabee what he would tell parents whose children are considering joining the armed forces.
“There’s nothing more honorable than serving one’s country and there’s no greater heroes to our country than our military,” he responded, “but I might suggest to parents, I’d wait a couple of years until we get a new commander-in-chief that will once again believe ‘one nation under god’ and believe that people of faith should be a vital part of the process of not only governing this country, but defending this country.”
Liberals will paint Huckabee’s comments are extremist, but aren’t they all about shutting down the military anyway?
Given how easily Obama sides with the LGBT mob against Christianity and how little he’s done to help those who are being oppressed and slaughtered by Islamists in the Middle East, I’m not sure Huckabee is too off the mark.