east germany and to have somebody in their neighborhood to make this country like that one, yeah, there was pretty much a lot of animosity toward the family and toward me. mike: and you grew up an atheist, grew up believing that your mother was right, but came a moment in which your life changed. how did you become a christian believer? well, i was raised, governor, in that atheist and marxist existence primarily because our family was dysfunctional and nobody could hold down a job, but i didn t have that problem and wound up successful in business, unfortunately, although i got rid of the marxism, that eig atheistism of stayed with me, instead of an atheist markist, a libertarian atheist and lived that libertarian life style thinking the only thing important is me and anybody that can t make it should just starve to death. and the problem with that, now it well from your experiences, that that life style is destructive and nearly destroyed me.
feel it would be appropriate for me to stand up to say the lord s prayer. she took her battle against school prayer all the way to the supreme court and won. and there will be no more religious ceremonies in the public schools. and murray can t stop there. she founded american atheists and sued the city of baltimore, demanding the city collect taxes from the tax exempt catholic church. she sued nasa, saying public prayer ought to be banned by government employees in outer space. she challenged the words under god in the pledge of allegiance and the motto in god we trust on currency. it s full of rape and slaughter and in 1995, o hair, and her granddaughter and daughter were kidnapped and murdered by david waters. a young man told the reporter that he s an atheist and fought tore school prayer with his mother and he says he
miles in just 48 hours, weather conditions blamed for spreading the flames in different directions. a wildfire that started in southern new mexico friday night has grown to 40 square miles and no containment lines have been built in either state. i m harris falkner, for the headlines when you want them, foxnews.c foxnews.com. [applause] shes was the most hated woman in america, a title she took great pleasure in, talking about madeline murray o hair. you re going to live your whole life preparing to meet the crazy as hell. in the early 60 s, she once tried to defect to the soviet union was looking for a reason to start trouble. she found it in the classroom of her teenage son william. i m an atheist and i wish to be an atheist and i don t
now denounced atheist and joung me the author of that book, the chairman of the religious freedom coalition, bill murray. great having you here. when i see some of the pictures i remember when your mother was sort of in her heyday and she was a reviled woman because she he offended the sensitivities and senseabilities of so many god firing americans. did you grow up feeling that hey, people hate my mother and hate me. did you wear it as a badge of courage at the time? our family was definitely dinner. mike: that s putting it mildly. and we did, we were different. i mean, as you said, my mother attempted to defect to the soviet union, she was a marxist leader in the community and our neighborhood was for the most part immigrants from many of those communist countries, from poland, from hungary, from
and toward me. atheist madeline murray o hair s son. when she looked at me san said, i wish abortion would have been legal when i was carrying you, told me that to my face. ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. (cheers) thank you, thank you. thank you very, very much. and welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. there s really no such thing as objectivity in politics, week strive for our observation, but i m not going to be disingenuous and tell you that i am. and where have i heard that, great concept. detached from a point of view. not going to happen. this week when i heard that