Huckabee: Connecticut Massacre Happened Because We ‘Removed God From Our Schools’

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Former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said today’s Newtown, Connecticut tragic massacre happened because “we’ve systematically removed God from our schools.” Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, told Fox News host Neil Cavuto that fixing the laws aren’t the answer, but fixing people’s hearts are.

Somehow, Huckabee saying the problem is “we’ve systematically removed God from our schools” in this context feels like he’s blaming the gunman’s mother, a victim, and a kindergarten teacher, for today’s massacre.

Huckabee is one of the first people Todd “legitimate rape” Akin turned to after his offensive comments on rape, and Huckabee walked him through an on-air “explanation.”

The sad reality coming out now is that the gunman responsible for the murder of 20 children, aged five to ten, and six or seven adults, including his mother, reportedly had mental health issues.

Adam Lanza’s heart wasn’t the problem, it was his head.

Mike Huckabee has spent years battling Obamacare, which helps ensure most Americans can get reliable access to healthcare — including mental health care.

Transcript and video, below, via Think Progress:

HUCKABEE: Ultimately, you can take away every gun in America and somebody will use a bomb. When somebody has an intent to do incredible damage, they’re going to find a way to do it… People will want to pass new laws, but unless you change people’s hearts, they’re our transition to the pastor side. This is a heart issue, it’s not something, laws don’t change this kind of thing.

NEIL CAVUTO (HOST): You know, inevitably people ask after tragedies like this, how could God let this happen?

HUCKABEE: Well, you know, it’s an interesting thing. We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we’ve systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage because we’ve made it a palce where we don’t want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability? That we’re not just going to have to be accountable to the police, if they catch us. But one day, we will stand before a Holy God in judgment. If we don’t believe that, then we don’t fear that.

 

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