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Huckabee's Fake Persecution Complex

By Ed Brayton

pMike Huckabee gave an a href="http://www.floridabaptistwitness.com/9733.article"interview to the Florida Baptist Witness/a where the incredibly popular Christian martyr pose was on full display. First he says something stupid about the atheist sign in Washington:/p blockquoteChristians need to be "very firm" but not angry in addressing issues like the recent flap in Washington State where atheists have placed a sign in the rotunda of the state capitol denigrating religion, Mike Huckabee told Florida Baptist Witness in an interview Dec. 9. p"It's not a matter of turning the other cheek," Huckabee said. "Atheists resent that there's a holiday that Christians can celebrate."/blockquote/p a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/12/huckabees_fake_persecution_com.php"Read the rest of this post.../a | a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/12/huckabees_fake_persecution_com.php#commentsArea"Read the comments on this post.../aimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scienceblogs/dispatches/~4/488712846" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).