Lord protect us from your misguided wannabe despots
This single statement should disqualify Hucklebee from ever coming anywhere near the White House — maybe even as a tourist, as far as I’m concerned:
“[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it’s a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that’s what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards,” Huckabee said, referring to the need for a constitutional human life amendment and an amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
This charlatan has precious little understanding, and far less regard for, what this country and its Constitution are supposed to be all about. He is no conservative; hell, with his unblushing advocacy for rewriting the Constitution for the greater glory of his God, he barely qualifies as a real American. What he is, is an embarrassment — and very little more.
I must admit, Sullivan’s tiresome “Christianist” hyperbole is looking a lot less…well, hysterical right now. Jon at Exurban League says:
This statement should shock every American to their very core. It is theocracy, pure and simple.
To those evangelical Christians supporting Huckabee, ask yourself this: What if Hillary or Obama said this line while speaking in a left-of-center church? Or Mitt said it to an LDS ward? Rudy to a Catholic assembly, or a Muslim congressman to a mosque? How would you feel if a presidential candidate was promising to revise the Constitution — the foundational legal document of this nation — to comply with the theological dictates of Rome, Salt Lake City or Mecca?
As of today, if Huckabee is the Republican nominee, I will not support him. I’ll support the Constitution instead.
Amen, brother. Ace has more, too.
Update! “Friends, we’re in a fight for our conservative values.” Are we ever.
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Lord knows that posting "thou shalt not steal" in the Capitol building would constitute a hostile work environment for your average Congressman....
It tells me more about the average "reasonable and levelheaded" secularist than it does about Huckabee. Our founding fathers openly stated that our inalienable rights were granted by God; they thought it not theocracy to bow their heads and pray that He would guide them in the founding of the constitution-- that its precepts would be more in line with His will and His design. And they thought it not hubris to say that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were God's will.
Abe Lincoln once said that it was not a question of whether God was on the side of the Union, but whether the Union was on God's side. Tell me, were we in peril of theocracy then?
Or perhaps when John Adams noted that our constitution was insufficient for governing anything but a virtuous people?
That a modern Christian should say that our Constitution and our country will be most prosperous and free when it is most in alignment with the will of God is not a threat of theocracy--- panicked shrilling by atheists and agnostics to the contrary--- It is a return to the principle that undergirded our country's foundation.
Make no mistake, Huckabee is a twit who has no business in the white house. But not because he thinks that the God who endowed us with our rights before the constitution was ever written should be the moral lodestar by which our legislation is navigated.
Just so you know, this shrill, panicked athiest practices these attributes regularly- possibly more, um, religiously than most Christians.