Posted on 01/15/2008 12:07:06 PM PST by inkling
"[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."
— Mike Huckabee, campaigning in Michigan last night.
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?
I'm confident you're revolted even considering those possibilities. But I hope you feel far more revulsion when you realize that a self-proclaimed Christian is using the name of Christ to force this same Taliban-style politics upon a free nation. America was founded in part to ensure freedom of religion. And speaking as an evangelical who attends a Baptist church, I'll be damned if I'm going to let any Baptist preacher take that freedom away from me or my fellow Americans.
As of today, if Huckabee is the Republican nominee, I will not support him. I'll support the Constitution instead.
Somebody ping me when Huck walks on water. I’ll put my head in the oven.
Let the snake oil salesman talk and talk and talk.
Huckabee gives me the creeps, I can’t even stand to look at him.
In time more people might wake up. Hope it’s soon.
What??!
What proposed amendment was Huckabee talking about?
LOL
What specifically does the Huckster want to change? Those who wrote the US Constitution were predominantly Christians and certainly sought God’s favor and wisdom in penning that miraculous document.
Well considering the writers of the Constitution where Christian and the reason we have freedom of religion is because of Chrsitian Principals, I have to support this statement from the Huckster...although he’ll not get my vote. Remember, we have the freedom of religion not from religion. We are a Christian Nation, that is fact and is undisputed.
We don’t need amendments to the Constitution; actually there are several which ought to be repealed. (And you don’t need me to tell ya which ones.)
I suspect that he was talking about the Human Life Amendment or the Marriage Amendment and his statement was taken completely out of context.
Huckabee IS the candidate that all the evangelicals were afraid Mitt would be.
Huck is a Pastor running for President instead of a candidate for President who happens to be a pastor.
Holy freakin’ crap.
You know, the Founders were all religious to varying degrees, some extremely so. But they gave us the government we have because they knew from recent history (Puritans) the dangers of one. One only has to look at the Muslim world to see the modern day version of that.
So is the Huckablasphemer smarter than the Founders? Uh, no Mike, your not.
I consider myself a very conservative Christian, and I find Huckabee to be one scary individual!
He was talking about abortion and sanctity of marriage to a relgious group. Shock!
Wrong. We are a “predominantly” Christian nation.
If Huck doesn’t cut it out, I am going to have to grow extra fingers and toes to keep count.
Isn’t this the fifth time he has proposed an amendment or to amend an amendment?
Huck knows all of this ain’t gonna happen, but his supporters can dream.
The best nickname yet! Somebody needs to Photoshop Huqtada with a beard, black turban, and scraggly, rotten teeth.
I’d be really offended ... if I could figure out what the Huck he is even saying. It sounds like gibbering nonsense to me.
What’s this nonsense about ... “than it would be to change the word of the living God,” ... huh? Is he claiming other people are trying to change what God says or his standards? Where are they doing that?!? He is trying to blaspheme and appropriate God for his political campaign?!?
Nobody is going around claiming their opposition to HLA or whatever he might be talking about is Biblical. The guy is creating a big strawman argument to knock down, and in the process showing very poor discernment and judgment about how to properly view the Constitution. Godly men wrote the Constitution, but it doesn’t mention God and it is man’s law, not God’s law. It guarantees freedom to worship rather than codifying one religious group’s beliefs.
Theocratic-sounding stuff like this is just meat for the grinder for the MSM. By the time they are through,the Huckster will be less popular than Sheik Mullah Omar.
This guy is so obviously mincemeat in the general election, we should just drop him right now like a hot potato.
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