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Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister who expressed his support for creationism while serving as governor of neighboring Arkansas, has been pressed several times during the presidential campaign for his view of teaching evolution, but has evaded the issue. "It is interesting that question would even be asked of someone running for President of the United States," Huckabee responded in a presidential debate last June. "I am not planning on writing the curriculum for an eighth grade science book - I am asking for the opportunity to be President of the United States...
Huckabee has focused his Texas campaign on rousing his evangelical core constituency in the Texas Bible Belt - conservative towns like Tyler in east Texas; Waco, home to Baylor University; Plano, a conservative, affluent Dallas-area community; and Fort Worth, where Huckabee attended the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in the 1970s. It is his efforts in Fort Worth that concern advocates like Miller; there SBOE District 11 member Pat Hardy, a former schoolteacher, curriculum adviser and moderate Republican, is facing a challenge from fellow Republican Barney Maddox, a urologist and ardent supporter of creationism. With no Democratic candidate on the ballot...
...original version of this article incorrectly stated that Mike Huckabee attended the Fort Worth-based Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in the 1970s. Huckabee attended the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary...
...Neal Stephens ’09, an AIA leader who identifies as Southern Baptist, says he worshipped at Memorial Church a few times during his freshman year as he was deciding what church to attend. He eventually settled on Park Street...
...identified with [Memorial Church’s] very traditional service coming from a Southern Baptist background, but I wanted a church I felt was in line with my beliefs,” Stephens says. “I connected with Park Street and the sense of community...