Rob Marus at Associated Baptist Press has published an insightful but incomplete story about the "political balancing act" that Huckabee has long performed when speaking to Baptists. ABP is an independent news agency whose primary audience is moderate Baptists.
It is a very good article with one glaring ommission. Marus fails to discuss the role that Rick Scarborough and Vision America are playing in Huckabee's Presidential campaign.
Scarborough, a key leader of then "young pastors" during the fundamentalist takeover of the SBC, is the chief political organizer among Baptists who are supporting Huckabee. He is greatly under the influence of Christian Reconstructionism. That's why many of the networks of pastors and the audiences of Christians that Huckabee addresses represent the extreme end of the evangelical spectrum.
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Huckabee gives me a headache. He has some good ideas, but in other ways, he's totally off the map!
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