Huckabee: Obama Is ‘The Most Anti-Christian’ President In US History

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks to reporters during a roundtable discussion in Washington, Friday April 17, 2015 about his future aspirations to run for President of the United States. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said on Monday that President Obama’s administration is “the most anti-Christian in American history,” according to The Iowa Statesman.

Huckabee was upset over Obama inviting transgender activists and the first openly gay Episcopal bishop to the welcoming ceremony for the pope at the White House. The Vatican criticized the invitations and said that photographs of the pope and these individuals might suggest approval of their decisions, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Huckabee called Obama’s decision a “politicized cattle call” in his statement.

“President Obama’s classless decision to transform Pope Francis’ visit to the White House into a politicized cattle call for gay and pro-abortion activists is an insult to millions of Catholics,” according to the statement. “Why is it that Obama goes to extremes to accommodate Muslim terrorists but shows nothing but disdain for Christians? This is a new low for an administration that will go down as the most anti-Christian in American history.”

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  1. oh really? At least Obama has never made excuses for a child molester.

  2. Translation: He is the first president in nearly 200 years who actually believes in the separation of church and state.

  3. Huckabee called Obama’s decision a “politicized cattle call” in his statement.

    I’ll bet the imagery of that made Gov. Huckabee pop a boner while he typed the statement.

  4. ohbuMMER WANTS to polyESTERIZE us all Into MusliM JiHADi anti-CHristIAN TERRor deSTROYErs OF TRue AmericaN VALUEs!1!1!!one!1!!!1

  5. Obama the most anti-christian? Not even close;

    They [the clergy] believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly; for I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion.

    -Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Benjamin Rush, Sept. 23, 1800

    History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

    -Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.

    In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

    -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814

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