Gretchen Carlson moved to tears as Mike Huckabee urges America not to be ashamed to believe in God

[Enrique]

aka the tears of a Fox News clown.

By the way, most of what Huckabee says, if they had come from a legitimate preacher, I would have no problem with. But they're coming from The Huckster and imho he's a total hypocrite fraud and so the words are rendered meaningless to me just by coming out of his mouth.


http://www.mediaite.com/tv/gretchen-carlson-moved-to-tears-as-huckabee-urges-america-quit-being-ashamed-that-we-believe-in-god/


Fox News Host Mike Huckabee moved Fox & Friends host Gretchen Carlson to tears on Monday in a discussion about God and religion in the wake of the mass murder in Connecticut on Friday. After saying that no one “should be surprised” by the attack because schools have become a place free of religion, Huckabee softened his tone. He said that Americans should no longer be ashamed of their belief in a higher power and turn to morality before the tragedy rather than after.

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“I’m not suggesting by any stretch that if we had prayer in schools regularly as we once did that this wouldn’t have happened,” said Huckabee. But, we’ve created an atmosphere in this country where they only time you want to invoke God’s name is after the tragedy.”

Huckabee praised President Barack Obama freely quoting scripture in the wake of the shooting deaths of 26 people, including 20 children. However, he said that it was still important to “create an atmosphere in this country where morality is not something we discuss only when we have no other place to run.”

Carlson was moved to tears. “Yesterday at our church, Governor, it was so moving,” she said. “It was so wonderful to know that if you are a person of faith, you have a lot of questions why, but you have something to hold onto.”

“I think It’s important that we quit apologizing for having a spiritual conversation,” Huckabee continued. “Quit being ashamed that we believe in God.”

[hifiguy]

1. I don't think there are enough stomach remedies

in the world to get me through reading that ignorant swill.

[Enrique]

4. try watching it

[hifiguy]

10. Nope. I managed to get through John Waters'

Pink Flamingos and laughed all the way through it. I am not squeamish, but there are some things to which I will not subject myself.

[we can do it]

2. I have a problem with that shit no matter who spews it

[renie408]

6. Oh yeah.

That is just crazy talk.

[SomethingFishy]

3. Not ashamed to believe in God.. just ashamed of

the people who apparently represent him. Yes I'm talking to you Huckabee... A bit of shame might do you good...

[renie408]

5. Why is it that they never stop to wonder WHY their wonderful God

allows this crap to happen if he is all that and a bag of chips??

"Something to hold onto..." WHAT?? That God, should he exist, completely ignores us? What, Gretchen, what is there to 'hold onto'?? Either your omnipotent, omniscient God allowed this to happen or willed it to happen. He allowed or caused the murder of 26 innocent lives, the majority of those children, to make some obscure God-point that so far, nobody is quite getting.


And that REASSURES you??

WTF?

[Dawson Leery]

7. The rebel huckster hides behind "God" in order to smear

all non-fundamentalist "Christians".

[Laochtine]

8. I think most

of those kids and teachers believed in a god, probably without shame. This is America, where god belief is 70%+ at least.
The thing is belief may comfort, but reality is without gun regulation nothing will stop this. A god sure didn't, he/she/it
won't stop it next time either.

We will, as a people if we have the courage to ask why we are the only industrial country that has these deaths,

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Yes, 'cuz when a mentally disturbed kid takes the easily accessed assault weapons from his

"gun enthusiast", survivalist mom and shoots up an elementary school, obviously Atheism is somehow culpable.

[renie408]

12. /\ That /\

[napkinz]

11. with thanks to Zoeisright

[Enrique]

13. that is just awesome

[Johonny]

14. I'd be less ashamed in believing in God

if people like Mike Huckabee would shut the fuck up.

[Enrique]

15. for what it's worth

from my agnostic point of view, I don't see any connection between believing in God and people like Mike Huckabee.

[TwilightGardener]

16. Yes--religion NEVER leads to violence, and never makes people

do crazy or hurtful things in the name of God.

[Initech]

18. Apart from most wars, the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, 9/11, systematic child abuse...

Stem cell research, abortion, women's rights, minority rights, the war on terrorism... nope. Never hurt anybody.

[Initech]

17. Fox News = American Taliban

[LiberalFighter]

19. What a stupid statement that "We've removed god from schools"

There is a reason why schools that teach religion are called parochial schools. And public schools are not.

A parochial school is a school that provides religious education in addition to conventional education.

What Huckster is also saying is that the churches that the students attend for Sunday School, confirmation classes, etc are not doing a good enough job to give that special christian blood that will protect them from harm when they are away from church. And those churches apparently not teaching morality in their sermons or their sunday school or bible classes.

"Quit being ashamed that we believe in God?" Really? The Huckster should be asked why he isn't ashamed that those kids were killed and god didn't stop the killer?