{"id":128381,"date":"2015-10-22T04:31:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T10:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/22\/so-when-will-mike-huckabee-show-up.html"},"modified":"2015-10-22T11:58:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T17:58:58","slug":"so-when-will-mike-huckabee-show-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/22\/so-when-will-mike-huckabee-show-up.html","title":{"rendered":"So when will Mike Huckabee show up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mean, here's a real<\/i> series of attacks on Christianity — or at least, on Christian churches and communities. Sure, it's not some thing fun and popular and fund-raising like standing up to those horrible Gays who want to get married, or denouncing That Muslim in the White House … but we have right here Christian churches being burned.<\/i> If Huck could show up for Kim Davis getting out of the pokey, surely he can swing by some black churches being torched in Missouri, right?<\/p>\n

If not, hey, plenty of room for Jeb! and Jindal and Carson (and Beck and Robertson and Fischer) to get in on the action. What say, guys? Anyone going to put together a national fund raiser for these folk?<\/p>\n

(Note: I have no doubt that the folk mentioned above, to the extent they've heard about this, are all unhappy that this has happened, like any decent human beings would be. The question is, are some actual Christians who have been hurt in some sort of concerted attack going to be worth some of these pols and pundits' precious moments of media time and business travel? And, if so, what's the message they will send out about it?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nLet’s See What Conservatives Have to Say About a Real War on Christianity<\/a><\/span>
\nThe burning of black churches near Ferguson is an actual issue, unlike “Happy Holidays” signs.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I mean, here's a real series of attacks on Christianity — or at least, on Christian churches and communities. 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