Mullah Huckabee.
"[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.
— 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.
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1/15/2008 11:03 PM
baldilocks wrote:
I had to go out—via the bus—after posting that last one, but before I did, I heard this from Mike Huckabee:[W]hat we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change -
1/16/2008 11:14 AM
kirkwalsh.com wrote:
Like I’ve said before, I want to like Mike Huckabee, I really do. He’s a personable guy who has a sense of humor about himself, which is sorely lacking politics. Most of his religious social views mix with mine, as far as helping those that... -
1/15/2008 8:11 PM
Bogus Gold wrote:
Yeah. This guy IS beyond the pale. No votes for him from this quarter even in the unrealistic conjecture that he's the Republican nominee....
"[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe ...
Al Gore referred to the constitution as "a living, breathing document" referring to the left's tendency towards constitutional revisionism. This actually is worse. As Americans we ought all to know what the constitution says, it's not very long, nor is it particularly complicated. But my real point here is that our constitution is what makes us the longest standing and most successful government in the world. Most of us understand that something that has worked so well for so long ought not to be tampered with lightly.
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This little statement of Huck's will separate the conservatives who claim to be evangelicals from the evangelicals who claim to be conservatives. Good for you, ExurbanJon!
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Maybe you should read the section of the constitution covering how it is amended; everything from the right to free speech to the income tax was *added*. If people do, indeed, amend the constitution as Huckabee suggests then 'supporting the constitution' will mean supporting these new amendment. Or do you just want to support the parts you like?
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We need Huckabee for the upcoming war with Iran. Ahmadinejad and the mullahs will have the backing of the twelfth imam, the mahdi, who's been hiding out in a well for the past 900 or so years.
Of all the candidates only Mike Huckabee is close enough to God that the Almighty would once again send us his one begotten son, this time to lead a Special Forces ops team to rapel down the well, take out the mahdi with his special Jesus powers, popping the mahdi's head like a ripe melon, and then eliminating the rest of Iran's nuclear sites.
Don't you think a few revisions to the Constitution to return us to the pure law of two-thousand year-old pre-industrial Middle Eastern desert dwellers is a small price to pay to see Jesus with an MP-5 and a rocket launcher slung over his shoulder, leading the forces of Huckabee goodness against those who reject the word of God?
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You think Huckabee’s special ops team could take on Mits Three Nephites? Think again mortal person…
(what a screwed up bunch we have that want to run our government)
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Aquinas, I've understood the amendment process since seventh grade. My issue with Huckabee is that he wants to alter a secular legal document to align with his limited view of God.
Since the First Amendment states that there is to be "no law respecting an establishment of religion," Huckabee's theocratic initiatives are dead on arrival. However, the fact that a major candidate for president wants American government to be more like Iran's disgusts me. And every other American who respects our freedom of religion.
Please excuse any rudeness in my tone, but this chucklehead is giving all of us evangelical conservatives a very bad name. He's also providing fuel to secular leftists who have warned of a right-wing theocracy my entire life.
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George & James, who needs a special ops Jesus when Huckabee has Chuck Norris leading his A-Team?
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Ooooo... A Chuck Norris Jesus Christ cage match on Pay Per View! I AM a genius!
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We don't have to look far for the text that the constitution can contain. It is the Sharia. The last words and standards from God.
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