Comments on: Listen to…Mike Huckabee http://jscafenette.com/2008/01/15/listen-tomike-huckabee/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:56:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Sue http://jscafenette.com/2008/01/15/listen-tomike-huckabee/#comment-6540 Sue Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:12:46 +0000 http://jscafenette.com/2008/01/15/listen-tomike-huckabee/#comment-6540 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. 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.

]]> By: Big Mo http://jscafenette.com/2008/01/15/listen-tomike-huckabee/#comment-6539 Big Mo Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:12:29 +0000 http://jscafenette.com/2008/01/15/listen-tomike-huckabee/#comment-6539 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. 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.

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