DISPUTE ON GOD DELAYS AID.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Is a tornado an act of God? Gov. Mike Huckabee  This article or section contains information about one or more candidates in an upcoming or ongoing election.Content may change as the election approaches. believes his God would never inflict such evil. State lawmakers insist God must be responsible. And tornado victims just want the bickering bick·er intr.v. bick·ered, bick·er·ing, bick·ers 1. To engage in a petty, bad-tempered quarrel; squabble. See Synonyms at argue. 2. over a disaster relief bill to end so they can rebuild their lives. ``I'm trying to get my residence set up. . . . The state can do more,'' grumbled Charles Dunn, 20, who lost his mobile home and his parents in the storms March 1 that spun off dozens of tornadoes and killed 25 people. Huckabee, a Republican and Baptist minister, told the bill's sponsors that he couldn't approve it because it referred to ``acts of God.'' He wanted the phrase changed to ``natural disasters,'' calling it ``a matter of deep conscience to me to attribute in law a destructive and deadly force An amount of force that is likely to cause either serious bodily injury or death to another person. Police officers may use deadly force in specific circumstances when they are trying to enforce the law. as being an act of God.'' ``It's a matter of conscience,'' Huckabee said Friday. ``I refuse to walk through tornado damage and to say that what destroyed it was God and what built it back was only human beings. I saw God protect a lot of people, save a lot of people. That's an act of God, too.'' Arkansas' House, after debating God's role in the world, decided to use both phrases side by side. ``To say God didn't create tornadoes is just like saying he didn't create spring rains,'' said Rep. Jim Luker, a Democrat. ``If God didn't create this universe and all the forces in it, then I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. who did.'' |
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