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Article: Huckabee Pits God Against Greens
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- The Washington Post
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- April 27, 1998
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For decades, Republicans have been pounded by charges that the
GOP is anti-environment. Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee may have found
the ideal counter-punch: Accuse environmentalists of being anti-God.
The problem with environmentalists, the GOP governor declared,
is that they have more faith in the Earth and animals than they have
in God, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported.
"God made us, and God made the Earth. . . . He gave us the
privilege to use it and enjoy the resources, but never to worship
it. We're to worship Him, not the thing He made. To me,
environmentalists are those who worship the things that He made
rather than He who made them," Huckabee ...