Gov. Mike Huckabee spoke to a packed CPAC on Friday morning, criticizing Obama’s religious rhetoric regarding taxes and his decision to defend the contraception mandate from Health and Human services.
“We’re all Catholics now,” he said of the response by the Catholic Church. A significant portion of the audience stood. He said the decision was about more than religion and cut to the core of American values.
Huckabee spoke with his typical mixture of folk humor and ecclesiastical fervor, poking fun at Obama’s comment that paying taxes was part of being a Christian.
“I didn’t know Obama was elected to theologian in chief,” he joked.
He added that nothing in his religious study as an ordained Baptist minister ever said paying higher taxes was a religious duty. But tithing privately is a duty, and Obama fell miserably short in his own giving to God.
This, he said, was like robbing God of His due. And from his 13 years as Arkansas’ Chief Executive, a person’s private giving will be indicative of a person’s character — or a politician’s policies.
“If a person will rob God, he’ll steal you blind,” he said.
