Wow the knives on Huckabee coming out. By the way Catholic here. I am not that offended. Just like I was not offended when George Bush spoke at the Mecca of Anti Catholicism BOb Jones University. Oh by the way his brother Catholic convert Jeb Bush spoke there too.

By the way who got that endorsement this year. Well Mitt Romney

By the way Rod Dreher at Cruncy Con so well points out the double stand of NRO and MRS Lopez in this very fun post a few hours ago. BY the way hewas Catholic and is now Eastern Orthodox. Hagee bashes those ancient Church Fathers too. Wow looks like we are not all offended. ANyway here is Rod's column
http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2007/12/huck-hagee-and-tolerance.html

"Huckabee to speak at anti-Catholic's church"

The blood feud between Jerusalem and Rome raises its head again. Hagee is doctrinally attached to the city on a hill, and not the city of seven hills. Rome's enmity to the Jews had only been sublimated during the cold war years within its parallel mission of bringing the eastern orthodox schismatics to heel, symbolized by Russia and USSR. Western Jewish interests here made relations smooth.

Now (and despite best efforts of Catholic New Right cold warriors) Russia is seen in a more measured way, and as Rome's penny-ante domestic "culture war" meme has been seen as rank hypocrisy by all, the minions of Rome lash out and hit erst-while friends such as fellow fanatic Hagee for not being considerate to the inconsiderate (themselves).

BTW, the Darby-Scofield doctrine of the Rapture which most charismatic preachers and Hagee preach is all wet. It's a lie and poor scholarship, dreamt up in the 1830s. Which illustrates how foul birds of a feather flock together: the neocons, the New Right, and certain lazy Christian preachers of the blab-it/grab-it sort.

Finally, the usually ferocious Catholic League having to resort to mutable words such as "tone" and "derisive" in quotes shows that they're out of bullets and they know it. Ecumenicism, anyone? Reichskanzler?

And speaking of Nazis,
the ever-incompetent K.Lo obliquely refers to the Vatican Concordat with National Socialism, etc. while only implying there's nothing to any of it.

I take it she was NOT Jesuit-trained.

Jeno's-trained?

Sounds like someone's bitter John Paul II tipped the arrow that brought down the Soviet Empire.

If you had a chance (or willingness) to view the transcripts of Huckabee's message at the church today, you would hopefully possess enough honesty to repudiate this ridiculous article.

One very interesting similarity between President Bush and Mike Huckabee is the amount of vitriol they receive on account of their Christian-based core beliefs. The left has long despised Bush because, simply put, they are Godless and perceive any God-based leader as an enemy. Seriously, would the majority of these people be "anti-war" had a Democrat launched the Iraq invasion? They use this particular issue as a means of galvanizing their opposition, but they couldn't give a rat's ass about our troops or the people of Iraq. President Bush has endured so many false incriminations (blood for oil, Haliburton, attack on civil liberties), but the real reason for all this contempt is his faith.

I am seeing much of the same happening with Mike Huckabee. The most prominent false attack is this notion of him being a "liberal". I guess he is just a pro-life, pro-marriage, pro-gun, pro-military, fair-tax kind of liberal? Republicans may fear he would not match up well against, Hillary in November -- that is a fair argument -- but this entire notion that he is a lib is simply untrue. Lined up issue by issue, only Thompson can claim a more conservative record than Huckabee. Moreover, Huckabee has at least attempted to clean up the blemishes in his otherwise conservative record... his 9-point immigration plan is certainly stout.

Huckabee's record and stated agenda is more conservative than all but one of the top-tier candidates. Opposition of him on the grounds he may not be a favorable matchup in November is one thing, but calling him a liberal is untruthful.

John Hagee falls loosly under the category of "Protestant" minister. Just like Bob Jones University, as a "Protestant School" they are suppose to be "Anti-Catholic." Their teachings and efforts should reflect their own beliefs and convictions. I Myself, as an Indepentant Baptist Preacher, will preach strongly against some of the doctrines held by Hagee and by Catholism. It is my duty and responcibility to do so just as it is his duty to proclaim the message he believes.
Now it is implied that Hagee is a bigot for preaching his "protestant" message. Huckabee is disgraced for associating with this popular, highly esteemed religious leader. Where is the real bigotry here? There is a strong attitude of "Anti-Protestant Bigotry" at work here by a very powerful organization which will use whatever means are acceptable for the present era to silence any and all opposition.

Let me explain the difference between Bush in 2000 at BJU and Huck at Cornerstone in 2007. Bush was assailed for texts which had been published by the BJU Press some twenty years earlier - granted the entire texts of all their earlier publications had been scanned into archives accessible on the website.

Hagee is actively preaching this utter nonsense now, today.

Got it?

Van Billingsley ~ NONE of this concerns differences in doctrine. It's about lying - spreading absolutely false slander about another denomination.

Alan Orfi ~ Unlike the attacks on Bush, the criticism of Huckabee is coming from evangelical Christians like myself. Now, if the text of his remarks at Cornerstone repudiates his host, feel free to post that section and a link.

I would have thought Rod Dreher intelligent enough to know the difference, but he's become progressively flakier since coming out as a "crunchy con" a couple of years ago.