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Originally Posted by foundit66
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."
When Willie Geist reported Huckabee's opinion on MSNBC's Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski was almost speechless, and even Joe Scarborough couldn't immediately find much to say beyond calling it "interesting,"
Scarborough finally suggested that while he believes "evangelicals should be able to talk politics ... some might find that statement very troubling, that we're going to change the Constitution to be in line with the Bible. And that's all I'm going to say." The Raw Story | Huckabee: Amend Constitution to be in 'God's standards'
Yowza!
Separation of church and state???
I can't get the video at the moment.
Is there something else in the context which mitigates what I see as an incredibly frightening statement? |
Perfect separation of church and state...
It's Raw Story, so you KNOW it's not true...)I'm not talking about what he said...I'm talking about the BLATANT misinterpretation)....
Two points...
1) According to the first paragraph, Huckabee says that he wats "God" and a mention of religion" in the Constitution...Which is a lie...Nowhere does Huckabee state anything close...
2) What Huckabee is saying is that he'd like to see "o amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards"...
Now I'll give an example of how MOST things in the Constitution are already up to "God's standards"...You can pick any one really...
Randomly, I looked at "Amendment 26 - Voting Age Set to 18 Years"
Question - Does this part of the Constitution CONFLICT with anything from anything construed as "God's standard"(Assuming Judeo-Christian "God)?...
Absolutely not...So Huckabee would believe there's no need to touch it...
DISCLAIMER - IMO, that's probably the way it is for almost, if not everything (I'm no Constitutional expert, so I don't know if anything would reasonably conflict with any "God standard")...
The reasonable question that someone SHOULD'VE asked is "What part of the Constitution do you think needs to be amended...AND HOW?...
IF...IF IF IF IF...Huckabee responded by pointing out that part, THEN said how "God" or "a mention of religion" should be added, THEN Raw Story's first paragraph would be found to be true...
But that didn't happen...So they are liars...
Most of our laws...not just the Constitution...are founded on "God's standard"...I don't think I need to show anything more than simply "Thou shalt not kill" as an example...