{"id":2852,"date":"2008-01-01T23:20:31","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T04:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2008-01-02T23:23:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T04:23:36","slug":"and-for-gods-next-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2852","title":{"rendered":"And for God’s next act…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure I can imagine a scenario in which I’d vote for any<\/em> Republican candidate in November, but if Mike Huckabee is still the front-runner by then, we could be in trouble. What’s worse, a President who claims to occasionally talk with God, or one who refuses to sign disaster relief because it might possibly make God look bad? <\/font><\/p>\n

No, seriously, Huckabee did that<\/a>:
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ARKADELPHIA, ARK. — Five days after the tornado tore through the state, this city of 10,000 lay in ruins. The cyclone destroyed an office building, a bank, a pharmacy and 70 other businesses. The electricity was out. The National Guard patrolled the streets. Six people were dead.<\/font>In Little Rock, GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee was reviewing a disaster insurance measure that he intended to support when he became troubled: The bill, drawing on centuries-old legal terminology, referred to natural disasters as “acts of God.”<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He refused to sign what should have been a simple and straightforward state senate bill because it painted God in a slightly unflattering light.
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“While I realize that to some this is a minor issue, it is a matter of deep conscience with me to attribute in law a destructive and deadly force as being an ‘act of God,’ ” he eventually wrote to the bill’s sponsors, Young and Sen. Wayne Dowd. While acknowledging that “acts of God” was the “appropriate” legal term, he suggested the legislature substitute “natural disaster.”<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, as any good Christian knows, God has nothing to do with nature.<\/font><\/p>\n

I swear, reality has made The Onion<\/em> and its like obsolete.<\/font><\/p>\n

Link via Gerry Canavan<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure I can imagine a scenario in which I’d vote for any Republican candidate in November, but if Mike Huckabee is still the front-runner by then, we could be in trouble. What’s worse, a President who claims to occasionally talk with God, or one who refuses to sign disaster relief because it might … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}