Kids Who Kill

Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence (ISBN 978-0805417944) is a 1998 non-fiction book by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Evangelical Christian author and pastor George Grant.

The book is a response to the Jonesboro massacre, arguing that the tragedy was the result of a society in decline, and that abortion, pornography, media violence, premarital sex, divorce, drug abuse and homosexuality were the cause of the decline. And kids at a very young age who kill.[1]

The book caused some controversy when, in December 2007, several news sources, including Mother Jones, reported that the book equates environmentalism with pornography, homosexuality with necrophilia, and nonbelievers with "evildoers".[1] During the 1998 Arkansas gubernatorial race, Democratic nominee Bill Bristow criticized Huckabee for making money off of the Jonesboro massacre.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Mike Huckabee: Playing Both Sides of the Pulpit
  2. ^ Barone, Michael; Grant Ujifusa (1999). The Almanac of American Politics. Washington, DC: National Journal. pp. 137. ISBN 0-8129-3194-7.