{"id":288,"date":"2007-12-13T13:54:45","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T17:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/13\/defending-huck\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T13:54:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T17:54:45","slug":"defending-huck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/defending-huck","title":{"rendered":"Defending Huck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ron Dreher is defending Huckabee against Romney’s bigotry charge<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Romney said on the Today Show that Huck’s query was an “attack.” David Kuo makes the necessary point<\/font><\/a>: that asking about someone’s religious beliefs, especially if the query is grounded in truth, isn’t an attack. Romney was “pathetic,” as David put it, to play the religious bigotry card here.<\/p>\n

To be sure, I don’t care what Romney believes about this matter, as long as it doesn’t affect the way he proposes to be president, and I think it’s a big mistake to hold that against him. But surely it isn’t an “attack” for Huckabee merely to have brought up one of the more unusual doctrines of the Mormon church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

David Kuo thinks Romney is pathetic:<\/p>\n

There are a thousand ways to attack someone’s religion – but asking questions about it is not one of them. If it were then every single person who asks questions about Christianity would be a religious bigot. Romney seems to have forgotten a speech he gave last week lauding American’s religious pluralism… maybe he needs to be reminded that that pluralism doesn’t just apply to him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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