Does it change your opinion of whether we need SBC representation at the convocation?Mike Huckabee, Republican presidential candidate and former governor of Arkansas, has withdrawn from the New Baptist Covenant Celebration planned for next January in Atlanta in protest of former President Jimmy Carter's labeling of the Bush administration's foreign policy as 'the worst in history'. (Baptist Press story)
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Huckabee added that he "tentatively" agreed to participate in the Baptist meeting "with the understanding that it was a celebration of faith and not a political convocation. In light of the program and roster of speakers, as well as the very harsh comments toward our president this weekend, I feel it would be best for me to decline the invitation and to not appear to be giving approval to what could be a political, rather than spiritual agenda."
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Mike Huckabee Withdraws
Here's an update on the New Baptist Covenant convocation, a meeting I mentioned in an earlier post:
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My opinion hasn't changed. It is interesting that Mike Huckabee said in his interview with Baptist Press, "Had I spoken (at the New Baptist Covenant Celebration) they would have heard a very conservative message which would be unapologetically pro-life, pro-family and by some definitions, fundamentalist in theology," Huckabee said. "But I'm a conservative who's not mad at anyone else and would not want to knowingly participate in a program if the focus was to tear down others instead of to lift Christ up."
Seems like that is the kind of message we need. Too bad the need to protest outweighs the need to profess.
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