August 1, 2007
Eating Their Own, Part 847: Brownback v. Huckabee
Get this: Two of the biggest anti-gay bigots around are attacking each other over the slightest of slights. What a couple of whiners.
Brownback Complains About Catholic Slur
Republican presidential hopeful Sam Brownback said rival Mike Huckabee should apologize for a supporter’s “prejudiced whisper campaign” against him for being Catholic.
Huckabee issued a statement Tuesday night that didn’t apologize for the remarks but said they were neither approved nor condoned by his campaign. He said he was glad that the supporter had issued his own apology and clarification.
The supporter, a pastor in Windsor Heights, Iowa, had sent an e-mail to Brownback supporters pointing out that Huckabee is an evangelical Protestant and Brownback is not. Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, is an ordained Baptist minister.
“I know Senator Brownback converted to Roman Catholicism in 2002,” Rev. Tim Rude, pastor of Walnut Creek Community Church, wrote in the e-mail. “Frankly, as a recovering Catholic myself, that is all I need to know about his discernment when compared to the governor’s.”
In the e-mail, Rude calls Huckabee “one of us.”
Not to be outdone…
Huckabee Responds to Brownback
The Brownback campaign sent out another e-mail an hour and a half after Huckabee’s statement, still calling for an apology from Huckabee. They say they saw Huckabee’s remarks last night, don’t consider it an apology and think the Huckabee campaign is “sidestepping the issue.”
Huckabee’s statement “said he’s glad Rude apologized, not that Governor Huckabee or his campaign apologizes,” a Brownback campaign spokesman said. “Our question is, Governor Huckabee himself, does he think what Pastor Rude himself says was wrong? Do they agree that the substance of his remarks were prejudiced, anti-Catholic or inappropriate?”
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