Mike Huckabee on Religion, Secularism, Church/State Separation, AtheismWhat Does Mike Huckabee Believe about the Role of Religion in Government?
Mike Huckabee’s campaign to be the Republican presidential nominee surprised a lot of people with its success. Huckabee’s support came almost entirely from conservative evangelical Christians, the traditional base of the Republican Party. Usually politicians just pander to them, but Mike Huckabee presents himself as a true believer in their political agenda of Christian Nationalism. Many Republicans get votes from evangelical Christians without having to deliver, but Huckabee said more in favor of Christian Nationalism and Christian theocracy than any other serious Republican contender for the presidency. Mike Huckabee’s Religious BackgroundBorn and raised a Southern Baptist, Mike Huckabee attends the Church at Rock Creek in Little Rock, Arkansas. This church teaches that the Bible is inerrant and that Jesus died as a substitutionary sacrifice to pay in blood for the sins of humanity. Huckabee has written that even as a teenager he hoped to work for an evangelical organization and for
