Finding God vs. finding sobriety: Mike Huckabee and rapist Wayne DuMond
"I am born again. I will never again commit rape, or any other crime."
Paraphrasing, so said Arkansas state penitentiary inmate Wayne DuMond about ten years ago, after having served over a decade for rape. Then-Governor and current Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee believed him. Reportedly responding to pressure from Huckabee, the parole board released DuMond who, less than a year later, murdered a mother of three. Today, misunderstanding the root cause of crime threatens Huckabee's campaign.
Like most people, Huckabee appears to think that crime is a result of Godlessness or other moral failing. If this were the case, the religious would never commit crime, while murderers, rapists and thieves would consist of only atheists and agnostics.
Wayne DuMond may have sincerely ...
