Wayne Bsen on Mike Huckabee's Christian Reconstructionist Movement Ties

My friend Wayne Besen, a long researcher on the Christian Right and it's anti-gay agenda, has a column (http://www.waynebesen.com/2008/01/is-mike-huckabee-closeted-stoner.html) that looks at some of the far, far right Christian Reconstructionists with whom Mike Huckabee has ties. In addition to Wayne's column, good information on the Recostructionists can be found at Theocracy Watch (http://www.theocracywatch.org/). These people , in effect, want the Christian equivalent to the Taliban to rule in the USA and other countries. Here are some highlights from Wayne's column:

It is scary to imagine, but the jovial Huckabee is linked to leaders of the Reconstructionist movement, which is so far to the right it makes Pat Robertson look like Ted Kennedy. The late RJ Rushdoony, a prolific writer that sought to replace the Constitution with the Old Testament, founded this school of religious thought. In essence, they want a Christian version of Iranian or Saudi Arabian sharia law in the United States. The Bible would govern every action, whether religious, personal or civil.

These fanatics believe that in order for Jesus to return, we have to create their view of the Kingdom of God on earth. I know this may be surprising, but their plan doesn't include gay people and Hillary Clinton would be in the kitchen fixing trail mix instead of mixing it up on the campaign trail.

America has a right to know why he has cavorted with several extremists and why he scrubbed the record of his preaching days."On the campaign trail, it is the Lost Decade of his life. No one can find, or get access to, texts or video of his sermons," writes Howard Fineman in Newsweek Magazine. It seems that Huckabee has shed his prayer papers faster than he shed those much-ballyhooed pounds that first put him on the national radar. What is he hiding? Many of us fear the happy-go-lucky preacher is whitewashing a controversial past that includes views that would disqualify him in the minds of many people for higher office.

It is critically important that the media ask Huckabee tough questions because he has based his entire campaign on being a "Christian Leader." He whizzed to victory in Iowa by galvanizing social conservatives on the phony issue of Christmas being under attack. If we end up with a religious zealot as President and the cabinet stacked with kooks, the media can't say they did not have ample warning.