Huckabee: Schools ‘A Place Of Carnage’ Because We ‘Systematically Removed God’
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee attributed the mass shooting
at Sandy Hook Elementary School in part to restrictions on school prayer
and religious materials in the classroom.
"We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have
systematically removed God from our schools," Huckabee said on Fox News,
discussing the murder spree that took the lives of 20 children and 6
adults in Newtown, CT that morning. "Should we be so surprised that
schools would become a place of carnage?"
Law enforcement has released few details on the alleged gunman, but
Huckabee suggested that the separation of church and state may have
spurred his rampage.
"[W]e've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity,
life, what responsibility means, accountability -- that we're not just
going to have be accountable to the police if they catch us, but one day
we stand before, you know, a holy God in judgment," Huckabee said. "If
we don't believe that, then we don't fear that."
He said those suffering from a crisis from faith should look to God
in the community's response to the violence. But he added that "Maybe we
ought to let [God] in on the front end and we wouldn't have to call him
to show up when it's all said and done at the back end.".............
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