Meet Mike Huckabee. He’s a Republican Party front runner for president of the United States of America.
I have opponents in this race who 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.
Hat tip MercuryX23.
So Huckabee wants to change the U.S. Constitution to add a “human life amendment” and an amendment to define marriage as between a human male and a human female. Why? Why should America’s secular law be based on Southern Baptists’ interpretation of their translation of the Bible? How is this any, any different than Islamists who wish to install sharia law?
How can Huckabee and his supporters even reconcile their lust for theocratic rule with our secular Constitution? The 1st Amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” Not only does Huckabee wish to amend our Constitution, but by doing so he wishes to repeal the 1st Amendment.
When all Biblical sins become crimes, will punishments too be as prescribed by the Bible? Jon Ponder of the Pensito Review writes:
Unlike the biblical prohibitions against gay sex, which are buried in lists of abominations in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the warning against adultery is in the Ten Commandments, right up there with murder and lying…
In fact, while being gay is an abomination-class sin – along with eating shellfish, leftovers and snakes, reading a horoscope, burning incense, women wearing pants, arrogance, improperly covering your poop in the desert, to name a few – there are only Ten Commandments, and if you believe any of it, you have believe that being an adulterer is as immoral, and thus should be as illegal, as being gay, if not moreso…
Our corporate media, MSNBC in this instance, prevaricates about the bush:
Huckabee often refers to the need to amend the constitution on these grounds, but he has never so specifically called for the Constitution to be brought within “God’s standards,” which are themselves debated amongst religious scholars. As a closing statement he asked the room of nearly 500 supporters to “pray and then work hard, and in that order,” to help him secure a victory in Tuesday’s GOP primary.
At least MSNBC covered Huckabee’s pronouncement, unlike most of corporate media. Huckabee is, by far, the most dangerous candidate running for the presidency of the United States of America. The media’s focus is on Huckabee’s populist, folksy charm when it should be on his theocratic aims for our nation and his raving mad followers.
Wake up America.
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“Contemporary”??? 1776, the Enlightenment which preceded it, the drafting of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, contemporary? How stupid is this guy?
I’m writing just to let you know that the United States Constitution is up to my standards in every regard. I do not appreciate it when humans attempt to tinker with it, especially when they cite me as authority for their proposed alterations. In fact, I rather like the Constitution the way it was interpreted by the Warren Court, and I desire an extension of those kinds of interpretations. I am not an “originalist”, nor do I agree with such interpretations. In fact, I consider those to be abominations, like having wet dreams on the eve of a battle. That is all for now.
that it deserves an amendment, why don’t they outlaw divorce? There must be something in the bible to justify that.
Honk if you ♥ Jaysus
Why do southern politicians have such appeal for Americans???? I can count on my hand the number here in the land of Gos, Guns, and Gays, who aren’t far out “the end is coming so let’s all buy buy me a Cadillac and pass the deed to your house” evangelicals. Seriously.
I have a spiffy idea… let’s just get rid of the constitution and run our country on the whims dominionists and other assorted cheerful sadists. At least we will know how it will all turn out.
I don’t find it that hard to tell the difference between “charming” and “creepy” but apparently most of the MSM does.
William Jennings Bryan!
What does Huck have that Bryan doesn’t???
(besides, you know, a pulse?)
is the difference between Jesus as a concept and Jesus as a real live person.
I’m not religious, but I like what I think I know of Jesus.
But that’s just my own concept.
Take a crowbar and try to ram some Jesus-said-this-or-believed-this-or-stood-for-this down my throat, don’t waste your time.
Maybe he doesn’t want secular law–maybe we should take him at his word–maybe he’s the Christian Osama. His insane read on politics has been drowned out by the insanity of Romney’s religion. We are headed for a new Dark Ages–be it because of politics or environment or religion–or the combination of the three.
Could we get one that says the earth is only 6,000 years old, while we’re at it?
what some of the freepers think about Huckabee and can stand the cooties you’re sure to get by a visit to Powerline, check this out. Its good for a laugh.