Blake Hall
Late last week, former Arkansas governor (and presidential hopeful) Mike Huckabee visited Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson to discuss a whole host of things.
One of them was kind of startling, and had to do with the military.
He said that President Barack Obama’s “open hostility toward the Christian faith” has basically made it impossible for any right-minded (no pun intended) man or woman of his faith to put on the uniform.
Here’s the meat of the exchange:
“Why would they want to be in a military that would be openly hostile and not just simply bring some scorn to their faith, but would punish them for it?” [Huckabee] asked.
This led Mickelson to ask Huckabee what he would tell parents whose children are considering joining the armed forces.
“There’s nothing more honorable than serving one’s country and there’s no greater heroes to our country than our military,” he responded, “but I might suggest to parents, I’d wait a couple of years until we get a new commander-in-chief that will once again believe ‘one nation under god’ and believe that people of faith should be a vital part of the process of not only governing this country, but defending this country.”