12 July 2010 Supporting the 1st Amendment to its destruction

12 July 2010 Supporting the 1st Amendment to its destruction


Huckabee: Amend Constitution to be in 'God's standards'

David Edwards and Muriel Kane Published: Tuesday January 15, 2008







“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."

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Huckabee_Amend_Constitution_to_meet_Gods_0115.html

The GOP’s hierarchy, the Tea Party mobs, the 10th amendment fanatics, and the militias all spend huge amounts of PR time screaming about the need to “defend the Constitution” or “protect the Constitution.” They view the Constitution, a truly amazing document for its time and place in the timeline of the history of nations, as in danger of imminent demise without their constant vigilance against anyone who might interpret it differently than they believe the original authors interpreted it.

Such a view taken by judges and justices throughout our history would have meant the continuance of slavery, no suffrage for women, no income taxes, no civil rights legislation, no Roe V Wade decision, no Miranda rights, and numerous other laws and decisions by federal courts that have become major decision points in the governmental processes and concepts that define and defend these United States.

I’ve listened to many of my associates rant about “judicial activism” and about the need to preserve the Constitution as written in order to keep the U.S. a viable and powerful nation. I see them post tirades concerning their belief that some non-GOP official or elected office holder is trying to re-write the Constitution in order to overturn the 2nd amendment and strip them of their firearms. They wave the 10th amendment about and insist that every government action not defined in writing in the 18th century is illegal and should be overturned immediately. And they brandish the 1st amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech and of religion as if it were a club, attempting to circumvent freedom of religion for their own purposes.

We’ve managed to this point to escape the establishment of a state-sponsored religion, a national church. It is impossible to define how extremely important that escape is. We’ve endured and survived one civil war concerning slavery and economics. A second civil war fought over religion would demolish this nation. We have only to look at the havoc caused by state religions in Latin America, the Arab nations, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and many other nations that still insist on state-sponsored religions, to see how much damage a state church can do.

So, in today’s correspondence, one of the most fanatical adherents of strict interpretation of the Constitution declared that he felt Mike Huckabee to be the best potential GOP presidential candidate. Huckabee is, as cited above, quite willing to change our Constitution and to subvert the 1st amendment. By day’s end, another dozen people from the same source will parrot their support of yet another hideously unqualified politician wanting to become POTUS and to slip his version of the Christian cult into national status.

For reasons I cannot fathom, the more fanatical Christians and the more fanatical denizens of the political right have been twisted by politicians with the ethics of a jackal into an alliance based upon racism, religious intolerance, fear of change, and collective lack of intellect; which allows that portion of the voter base to be manipulated by politicians trumpeting about the takeover of the U.S. by socialists, homosexuals, atheists, non-wasps, and Moslems. They stir up a populace that is all too willing to abolish the 1st amendment’s protection against a state religion. They stir up a populace that believes that it has every right to insert its religion into all aspects of our national life; education, health care, civil contracts between life partners, management of prisons, etc. Yet this base and the politicians, who lead it by the nose, recognize the damage to a nation that Islam can and has caused. They object to Sharia law as a matter of attacking other politicians but find no problem with cannon law becoming U.S. law – well, protestant defined laws if not Catholic versions of religious law.

These protestant evangelists believe that they have every right to reform this nation and turn it into a theocracy based upon a line or two of the New Testament mythos in their King James translation. In doing so, they would, of course, exclude every other Christian cult, and every non-Christian religion.

Mike Huckabee is an ordained Southern Baptist minister. This places him, at least nominally, in support of a cult that is opposed to female equality in the home and in their churches. It places him in support of the literal interpretation of a bible that suffers from many translation errors and lacks for authentication, but is proclaimed to be the “infallible word of God.” Huckabee, while Governor of Arkansas, became notorious for pardoning any state prison inmate who experienced a jailhouse conversion. Two of his more notorious pardons were delivered to inmates who subsequently committed extremely brutal murders. Of course, as good Christians, they must have been forgiven.

I can’t imagine anyone who proclaims an interest in preserving the Constitution as written having any reason to support a backwoods politician who would do everything in his power to destroy the key components of the Bill of Rights. But I also can’t understand why anyone would expect a document, however worthy, to be infallible in all situations over 234 years later without some honest and earnest interpretation by men and women of intellect and learning. However enlightened our founders were, they were no more infallible than is the head of any church, then or today.

That a staunch and immovable strict construction view of the Constitution and its application to today’s U.S. should be overturned by support of the candidacy of a man who’s first efforts in office would be to destroy the 1st amendment; demonstrates how deeply evangelical Christianity has been able to burrow into the supporting skeleton of this nation. This is grievously and dangerously wrong. While all citizens of this nation should be able to follow their choice of faiths, no faith or cult should be allowed to become involved in any form of government within this nation. There is no higher law in this nation than that derived from the Constitution, nor can there be. Huckabee, and others like him, are a threat to the integrity of this nation. I hope that the media can begin to stress the damage he is capable of rather than using him to increase ratings in the 24 hour fake news business.

Huckabee would be yet another ideal candidate recruited by the former USSR. The loss of scientific secrets to the Soviets would have been far less harmful than destroying the Constitution. If you think about joining the Palinova = sleeper agent smear campaign, Huckabee would be a great target to include in the list of “who would be the best sleeper agent?”