Questioning Huckabee’s beliefs

Re “Huckabee wanted AIDS patients isolated,” Dec. 9

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister, believed that rapist Wayne DuMond had a religious conversion to Christianity and therefore deserved to be freed. DuMond went on to kill.

Huckabee’s remarks in 1992 revealed his ignorance, intolerance and contempt for homosexuals and those suffering from AIDS, whom he felt should be isolated from the general public -- despite the fact that this was not a disease spread by casual contact.

He has evolved to his current position of opposing same-sex marriage and domestic-partner benefits. Perhaps I shouldn’t use the word “evolved,” because he doesn’t believe in evolution either.

Based on what he’s said and done, he is delusional at best, evil at worst and certainly a danger to the general public. Haven’t we already had enough of that in a president?

Mitch O’Farrell

Glassell Park

Re “Parole case may dog Huckabee,” Dec. 8

The role of Huckabee, then governor of Arkansas, in the parole of DuMond is emblematic of the arrogance that I have come to associate with born-again Christians.

It was arrogant that he and Pastor Jay D. Cole assumed that they had the right to forgive this criminal; that right belongs to his victims and their families.

It was arrogant to assume that their righteousness and superior religion cured an evil man. The ignorance that allows Huckabee to believe in creationism despite so much evidence to the contrary must have similarly let him overlook all the studies on recidivism in serial rapists.

Huckabee shares moral responsibility with DuMond. I wish I believed in a God and an afterlife, so I could believe that he would be punished, but I will settle for not having that kind of arrogance and ignorance in the White House again.

Eva Segovia

Laguna Beach