Huckabee Tries to Walk Back Comments on God and School Shootings
Huckabee Tries to Walk Back Comments on God and School Shootings
Fox host and former governor Mike Huckabee attempted to walk back his comments linking a lack of religion in schools to Friday’s tragic shooting in Newtown, CT. But while Huckabee now claims that he did not suggest “prayer in schools” would have prevented the shooting, he indeed seemed to imply that religion in schools could have done as much in his remarks on Friday.
On Friday, Huckabee responded to a question about God from Fox host Neil Cavuto by linking the removal of “God from our schools” to mass school shootings.
On Fox & Friends Saturday, he attempted to clarify his comments, saying, “Yesterday, I was on Neil Cavuto. He asked me, you know, where was God? I said, you know, we’ve systematically removed him from our culture, from our schools. Well, I’ve been barraged by people who have said that I said, well, if we just have prayer in schools, this wouldn’t happen. That’s not my point.”