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...campaign, Huckabee was considered a nonfactor, which gave him the freedom to sermonize in ways that his front-running opponents had to avoid. In his speech he invoked Old Testament prophets, referred to the "holocaust" of abortion, and declared "I think it's important that the language of Zion is a mother tongue, and not a recently acquired second language." A few media (including TIME) noted that Huckabee received more than half of the on-site votes in a straw poll, but most missed the story...
...said. "You are my roots." He mentioned that he had been a Baptist pastor. He said same-sex marriage defies "the holy word of God." He called abortion a "holocaust." And then he came back to the question of roots. "I think it's important that the language of Zion is a mother tongue and not a recently acquired second language...
...real estate agent who showed me my apartment pointed out the views of Mount Zion, ringed by cypress trees, and the walled Old City with its minarets and church spires piercing the blue Jerusalem sky. But she neglected to say that the apartment had a drawback: its proximity to hell. A few hundred paces downhill, and you are in the Valley of Hinnom, where Muslims, Jews and Christians all believe that on Judgment Day, the gates of hell will open up as sinners go tumbling into the flaming vortex...
...apparently, whatever Ross felt like. His command of the material is so complete, and his guidance through it so gentle, that although some of the groupings he proposes seem opaque (“Dance of the Earth: The Rite, the Folk, le Jazz;” “Zion Park: Messiaen, Ligeti, and the Avant-Garde of the Sixties”), with a little reading and a little faith the connections soon become clear.The effortless brilliance of his modular style is that, after building up one school of thought, he can quickly dismantle it and show which pieces became...
...before heading into the main point of their sermon. Huckabee used that rhythm as well with a story about the early 20th century evangelist Billy Sunday. And then he got down to business. Zinging his opponents, Huckabee said that social conservatives need a candidate who speaks "the language of Zion as a mother tongue." And challenging the Christian Right leaders who are lining up behind Romney and, to a lesser extent, candidates like Fred Thompson, he urged: "Let us not sacrifice our principles for anybody's politics...