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Huckabee To Address Hundreds Of Pastors In Des Moines

03 Dec 2007 08:13 am

But you won't find it on his public schedule.

Today or tomorrow, Huckabee is a featured guest at the latest pastor briefing of the "Iowa Renewal Project," which aims, in the words of an e-mail Don Wildmon sent to pastors, to "encourage pastors and their congregations to take a stand for morality in their daily lives."

Don Wildmon, is, of course, the president of the American Family Association, one of the Project's key sponsors. He's also endorsed Huckabee.

There is no overt coordination between the project, which has affiliates in South Carolina and New Hampshire, and the Huckabee campaign. But to the extent that pastors who attend the project's briefings are familiar with Huckabee and Wildmon's support for his candidacy, Huckabee's rivals worry that the group amounts to a "campaign organization for pastors" operating on Huckabee's behalf.

As an aside, note that former Sen. Maj. Leader Bill Frist helped underwrite the Iowa Renewal Project two years ago when he was attempting to jump-start his presidential campaign.

The briefing takes place the Des Moines Marriott and is closed to the press. Huckabee is listed as a guest on the invitation but does not list the event on the schedule his campaign distributed to reporters Sunday.

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Comments (7)

Marc,

What's worrisome about this is that David Barton still gets treated with respect by this movement. As a liberal Catholic, I'm all for an honest discussion about what role religion should play in our public lives, but Barton has been shown to rewrite history in the most flagrant manner, including using "quotes" from our founding fathers pulled from thin air. We simply cannot deal with faith in a meaningful way when people who are so willing to obfuscate are rewarded rather than shunned.

Sure wish I were there! I've been to conferences dand heard David Barton speak, so IDon't know why nitpicker is nitpicking David Barton...David is accurate and amazing!

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It is sure to blow Huckabee's fundamentalism out of the water and heal American's division on Faith.

I fail to see why having this group act as an advocacy group for Huckabee's campaign is a problem. Many of the candidates have organizations working behind the scenes for them. Huckabee happens to be quite out front about whose support he is looking for (apparently not the conservatives).

Dr. Wildmon is also the founder and chairman of the Arlington Group, a coalition of major national and state pro-family groups about which much has been written this cycle.

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