Huckabee responds to South Carolina church shooting

Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee issued the following statement in response to the tragic mass shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC:

“A church is called a sanctuary because it’s a place of refuge and respite from the earthly and connects us to the heavenly.  The Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. became a scene of unspeakable carnage because an evil person violated the sanctuary where earth and heaven meet and turned it into a place where earth and hell meet.  No civilized person can react except with revulsion to such a senseless, cowardly, and despicable act. And for it to happen in one of America’s truly great and gentile cities adds to the horror.  All Americans join in the condemnation of this act, but for Christians, such horror is especially painful because a holy place for peace and prayer has been infected and desecrated by demonic violence.  The prayers that were interrupted by a mass murderer will be continued by a grieving nation.”