Listen to…Mike Huckabee
No matter your religious preferences, this statement by Mike Huckabee should be enough to make you take a step back and ask if you can support someone who would not be a President to all, but rather to those who have only his Christian beliefs.
Thanks to Rob at Say Anything for providing the video.
He offers these thoughts:
Now, I understand that Christians believe the word of God (as defined by the various denominations) is the ultimate truth. And I understand that Christians want to incorporate that truth as they see it in our laws. But what we need to remember is that while Christianity dominates America’s spiritual landscape not everyone in America is a Christian. We’ve got Jews and Muslims, Buddhists and atheists too. And they may not want the Constitution to reflect the word of God as Mike Huckabee sees it.
This is why our founding fathers put, in the very first amendment of the Constitution, a clause ensuring that our national government would be a secular government. They realized that all Americans should be free to practice the religion of their choice.
Do I believe that Mike Huckabee has a deep and abiding faith? Absolutely. I think the same of President Bush, but as President you must govern all equally.
Your thoughts?
Written by Sue
Big Mo Says:
January 16th, 2008 at 11:12 amVisit Big Mo
Huckabee is wrong. I am an evangelical, but he needs to heed the wisdom of the men he seeks to succeed.
Rob at Say Anything is partially right. The founders used Christian principles when creating the nation, and they specifically and deliberately did not establish this nation as a theocracy. But they in no means established America as a “secular” nation. It was a strongly Christian nation at the founding (although some founders were deists). However, take what Huckabee says to its logical conclusion: what if Keith Ellison is joined by more Muslims in Congress, and they start echoing Huck by wanting the government to conform more to the word of God—THEIR god?
We’re a democratic-republic, and I’d like to keep it that way. Christians have a duty to be involved in public affairs, but what he’s saying worries me.
Besides, if there is one thing that would make the other side go ape against him, this is it.
Sue Says:
January 16th, 2008 at 2:12 pmVisit Sue
The thoughts you offered on Keith Ellison were what crossed my mind in listening to Huckabee.
I do not believe that the country would vote to amend the Constitution on the basis he laid out, but suppose we did.
Can you imagine the court battles which would no doubt ensue?
We have enoughh interference by the Judiciary as it is in regard to religion, we need no more. And these days, who knows how the Constitution would be interpreted.
Why not campaign on Christian principles and leave such things as Constitutional Amendments out of the equation.