Gov. Huckabee Calling for Faith-based Action

In this article in the San Angelo Times Mike Huckabee talks about how his faith moved him to action during the aftermath of the Katrina.

• Like any other Bible Belt state, Arkansas contains more than its share of church camps.
  Gov. Mike Huckabee thought about that after Hurricane Katrina. The ordained Southern Baptist minister also knew the summer camping season was over and thousands of people fleeing New Orleans had to go somewhere.
  “I saw on TV people on the bridges of Interstate 10 stranded for days without water, and I thought, this isn’t Rwanda. This isn’t Indonesia.
  “This was the United States of America,” said the former governor, who is part of the throng of Republican presidential candidates. “These were the neighbors just to the south of us in Louisiana. It was beyond my comprehension that we could get TV cameras to those people but we couldn’t get a boat or a bottle of water to them.”
  Thus, he asked religious leaders to open camps all over Arkansas to the evacuees, while urging the public to rally around this blunt public policy: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
  This was one case in which critics didn’t challenge his link between private faith and public action, said Huckabee, meeting with journalists at a recent talk-back session at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

What doe he say in regards to other candidates who avoid talking about faith when asked?

• “I sometimes marvel when people running for office are asked about faith and their answer is, ‘Oh, I don’t get into that. I keep that completely separate. My faith is completely immaterial to how I think and how I govern,’ “ he said.
  “To me, that is really tantamount to saying that one’s faith is so marginal, so insignificant and so inconsequential that it really doesn’t impact the way one lives. I would consider it an extraordinarily shallow faith that does not really impact the way we think about other human beings and the way we respond to them.”
  No one debated that concept after Katrina. Huckabee listed several other unifying moral issues he thinks deserve attention on the political right. Read more about what he has to say on the issues of environmental stewardship, energy and business corruption.

This article is another example of him walking the talk.