Yesterday, Vision America’s Rick Scarborough hosted a conference call with Mike Huckabee and Tony Perkins that, as far as we can determine, was designed to promote the “Give Me Liberty” events that Scarborough has been organizing throughout the nation in an effort to encourage pastors to mobilize their congregations ahead of the midterm elections.
During the call, Huckabee said that all of America’s problems are “ultimately spiritual” and can only be solved by a revival among the citizens who will “vote the Bible.”
He blamed abortion rights laws on the failure of conservative Christians to get involved in politics, leaving him to wonder, “how do we face God with that?” On top of that, Huckabee criticized conservatives for accepting judicial rulings which strike down gay marriage bans, saying there should be a “massive outcry” against the decisions.
“We have people who say ‘well, the courts have ruled on abortion, we just have to live with it,’ or ‘the courts have ruled on same-sex marriage, we just have to live with it,'” Huckabee said. “And I would suggest, no we don’t! We shouldn’t just accept things that are ungodly and that will cause us to have to stand before God with bloody hands.”
The solution, he said, is for pastors to encourage their congregations to “vote the Bible” because doing so will solve every problem, including economic ones “because everything about the economy that’s wrong would be fixed if people had a biblical understanding of the economy”:
