Posted on 10/31/2007 4:02:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is under fire from Jewish groups after a speech he gave at a pro-life event the weekend before last. In the address to the Family Research Council, the former Arkansas governor referred to the deaths of 45-50 million unborn children from abortion as a holocaust.
In the speech, he linked the issues of abortion and illegal immigration -- saying the destruction of tens of millions of unborn children has left the U.S. with a worker shortage.
“Sometimes we talk about why we’re importing so many people in our work force,” Huckabee said in the speech.
“It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our work force had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973," he explained.
Following the speech, the Anti-Defamation League called on presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to refrain from invoking Holocaust imagery in future comments on the campaign trail.
In a letter to Governor Huckabee, ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman said: "The Holocaust was a unique tragedy in human history."
"We find the use of analogies to the Holocaust in other contexts deeply painful, disturbing and offensive," Foxman said. "Such analogies can only trivialize and diminish the horror, and cause further pain to Holocaust survivors and to those alive today who lost friends and loved ones."
But pro-life advocates have now come to Huckabee's defense saying that his use of the term was not meant as an offense to Jewish people but to underscore the equal tragedy in the destruction of human life.
Kristi Hamrick, a spokeswoman for the Campaign for Working Families, told The Jewish Daily Forward, “I’m surprised that it’s considered controversial when that is a common reference."
“Among pro-lifers, both events are seen as tragic, but the death toll now from abortion is between 40 and 50 million in the United States since 1973," Hamrick explained. "Now that’s a huge number of people who are dead and gone.”
Asked if he approved of Huckabee’s use of the word “holocaust,” Marvin Olasky, a conservative columnist and onetime Bush adviser, told the newspaper, he believed the word was “objectively” accurate.
Olasky said Huckabee used the term “honestly and respectfully" but he is generally “subjectively uncomfortable” with the word’s adoption by those who oppose legalized abortion.
Huckabee has been picking up more support lately in the polls, in part because some of the pro-life advocates who had been in Sam Brownback's camp shifted to him.
The nearly 50 MILLION future TAXPAYERS we killed are the reason Social Security is about to collapse.
From a purely socioeconomic and demographic standpoint, deciding to murder a generation less than a decade after the biggest population boom in world history was a recipe for disaster.
This attack is wholly unreasonable and I have no reason to criticize Huckabee on this.
This on the other hand, seems pretty “darning”:
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http://ace.mu.nu/archives/245152.php
We have passed the point of absudity when Abe takes offense at the characterization of the murder of 50 million babies or so as a holocaust.
Which is why I no longer take Abe Foxman seriously at all.
Not to mention sticking We the People with the bill for it.
Has somebody patented and trademarked and copyrighted the term ‘Holocaust’? It’s a word, was a word before, and cannot be branded although perfectly good words have been so denatured before and will be again.
I have absolutely no problem with calling a horse a horse.
mrs
BTTT
Nothing irritates these people as much as the truth.
It’s a Greek word and does not appear in the KJV. It might appear in the Septuagint since that was in Greek, and might appear in the NT Greek versions.
Murdering babies. What would anyone else call it?????
Sorry, I meant to ping you.
But, the original meaning is to sacrifice by fire.
Foxman is an embarrassment to Jews who have better things to do than spend their days trolling for slights.
The Holocaust is a term with specific meaning. The word “holocaust” is generic, and Huck crossed no line by using it. Huck certainly did not offend me, and I am as Jewish as Foxman.
By the end of next week, more Americans will have died in abortuaries in 2007 than have died in every American war COMBINED.
Sounds like the shoe fits.
I don't recall Foxman having a trademark for use of the word.
"We find the use of analogies to the Holocaust in other contexts deeply painful, disturbing and offensive," Foxman said. "Such analogies can only trivialize and diminish the horror, and cause further pain to Holocaust survivors and to those alive today who lost friends and loved ones."
Foxman should count his lucky stars that there are people who find a pattern of dehumanizing people, subsequently creating an industry of death, killing people on a mass scale and finally using what is left of the corpses for furthering dehumanization (think lampshades made from the skins of Jews).
Very true and it's worth noting that embryonic stem cell research on the corpses of slaughtered infants is just as macabre and inhumane as Dr. Mengele's gruesome experiments.
I knew you would make the connection.
And where exactly is he incorrect???? Millions since 1973. Millions more to come. What a waste.
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