The Raw Story reports; I just shake my head in profound bemusement,
The United States Constitution never uses the word “God” or makes mention of any religion, drawing its sole authority from “We the People.” However, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee thinks it’s time to put an end to that.
“I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution,” Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. “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 — to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view.”
Huckabee has every right to believe whatever he wants to believe, just like any citizen of the United States of America. But that’s not enough, nor is it a satisfactory condition, for candidate Huckabee. He envisions an America where everyone is forced by law and Constitutional amendment to believe as he believes. Not just in an invisible super-being who lives in the clouds and demands praise and devotion from his subjects, but the Baptist interpretation of this god.
Could anything be less American, more unconstitutional, than an avowed theist openly advocating turning America into a theocracy? Could there be any suggestion put forth by a presidential candidate that could do more to further discredit the U.S. in the eyes of other nations, alienate our allies, increase tensions throughout the world, turn every combat situation America engages in into a religious war, than to suggest we amend, no, corrupt the Constitution to create an American version of Iran or Saudi Arabia? If a Muslim suggested we amend the Constitution to conform to Muslim teaching, he couldn’t get elected dog catcher in Los Angeles.
This ought to immediately disqualify Huckabee from any further consideration as a presidential candidate.
