Huckabee Says Connecticut School Massacre Occurred Because We ‘Removed God From Our Schools’

[CatWoman]

here we go

Former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee attributed today’s deadly massacre in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut to the lack of God and religion in public schools.

Addressing the tragedy on Fox News, Huckabee dismissed calls for stricter gun control and claimed that future violence can be prevented by solving matters of “the heart” and turning to God:

HUCKABEE: Ultimately, you can take away every gun in America and somebody will use a bomb. When somebody has an intent to do incredible damage, they’re going to find a way to do it… People will want to pass new laws, but unless you change people’s hearts, they’re our transition to the pastor side. This is a heart issue, it’s not something, laws don’t change this kind of thing.

CAVUTO: You know, inevitably people ask after tragedies like this, how could God let this happen?

HUCKABEE: Well, you know, it’s an interesting thing. We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we’ve systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage because we’ve made it a palce where we don’t want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability? That we’re not just going to have to be accountable to the police, if they catch us. But one day, we will stand before a Holy God in judgment. If we don’t believe that, then we don’t fear that.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/14/1339971/huckabee-says-connecticut-school-massacre-occurred-because-we-removed-god-from-our-schools/?mobile=nc

[Harmony Blue]

1. Fuck you Huckabee

Religious fundies are so irrational.

Most Christian sects argue you make daily choices of what is right and wrong. Not sure what Bible he grew up learning.

[LonePirate]

10. My sentiments exactly. Fuck you, Mike Huckabee!

[RebelOne]

32. I was thinking the same thing: Fuck You Huckabee!! n/t

[Jersey Devil]

2. Easier to buy a gun in Arkansas than it is to vote

I'd say that is really fucked up priorities, so Huckabee should keep his mouth shut.

[Island Blue]

3. So God is a

baby killer who smites anyone who doesn't bow down to him all day, every day. Thanks for clearing that up, Huckabee.

[JRLeft]

26. The answer is Yes!

[NightWatcher]

4. (comment self-censored to keep message board user out of prison)

All I can say is

[sufrommich]

5. Fuck you Huckabee and every other living asshole

who has turned their religion into gun worshiping fascism. If I believed in hell, it would be filled with the Huckabees of this country.

[hatrack]

6. West Nickel Mines School, Old Order Amish, 2 October 2006, 10 shot, five murdered, gunman suicide

So they didn't have God in their school? Is that why this happened?

Fuck you, Governor Chucklenuts and the Bible you thump. Just fuck you.

[kestrel91316]

20. [phone]

[doc03]

7. So that is where it came from. Someone called a local radio

call in show a few hours ago parroting that line. "The liberals took God and prayer out of school now they want to take my guns." Must have heard it on Faux.

[msanthrope]

8. Wayne DuMond, you Fuck, Huckabee, Wayne DuMond. nt

[smokey nj]

9. Was God with your son when he tortured and killed a dog, asshole?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2007/12/15/a-son-s-past-deeds-come-back-to-bite-huckabee.html

Have I mentioned yet tonight how much I hate this bastard?

[movonne]

11. He is full of bull shit...I can't stand

these God people and their fake crap that they keep spewing...don't blame the guns...God wants you to have guns..

[JeffHead]

22. Number of times guns are mentioned in the bible...

Exactly ZERO!

[spanone]

12. somebody shut him up.

[AngryOldDem]

13. No, it's because we've removed common sense from our culture.

And somehow, to imply that God "allowed this to happen" out of spite, as Huckabee does...there are just no words.

I don't know about you, but I really don't want to hear any more religious bullshit right now.

[jsr]

14. Huckabee, Shut your goddamn trap.

[datasuspect]

15. fuck them and their piece of shit god

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. Him again?

That douchebag Huckabee granted clemency to Maurice Clemmons who ended up killing 4 police officers in Lakewood Washington. Huckabee granted this in part because he believed Clemmons had found Jesus.

[geomon666]

17. Divorced from reality n/t

[Bosso 63]

18. If thats your god then fuck you and fuck him.

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. Has he no shame?

[City Lights]

21. Fuck the Huckster.

[msongs]

23. since most criminal is the USA are christians who love huckabee's god.... he is FOS nt

[Luciferous]

24. Someone needs to punch that asshole in the face nt

[nolabear]

29. No. No violence. Not now. But his motives should be called out.

Because this is a power grab, I think. He's using the tragedy to further his agenda, which is to garner RW support.

[arthritisR_US]

25. What a douche bag!

[nolabear]

27. You can talk about all those things w/o it being "God".

I'd LOVE it if schools talked about what it means to be human, about the mystery of life and how we want to know what happens when we die, and how fragile we are and how much we need one another. Pesonally I have no problem with the Christian pov being brought up as one way people deal with these things...but that's not what he's talking about. He's simplistic and obstructionist, and he's really doing this to get support for his ambitions, imo.

[flakey_foont]

28. After today's horrifying events, one would expect, or at least hope

that our religious leaders would offer words of comfort and consolation rather than blame.

[Raksha]

30. Does anyone actually care what Fuckabee says?

[juxtaposed]

31. fuk huk