A Little Closer To That Theocracy
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.”
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What’s next, enshrine the ten commandments in American law?
It’s gonna be an interesting place to live if Huckabee wins ain’t it?
[h/t Throbbin]
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If Huckabee wins the nomination, I will get a laugh and will make fun of him.
If he wins the election, I’m packing my bags, moving back to Nunavut, and stockpiling food and supplies.
The only reason I can see for the easy ride Huckacon’s gotten from the Mass Media Podpeope’s Hivemind is that it wants someone who’d be a snap for The Hildebeast or Barak Hussein Obama-Winfrey to beat.
He’s typical of the lowest, most despicable class of Baptist preacherboy (and I speak as a Baptist, here): completely without any genuine scruples in seeking power, willing to claim divine authority–especially when he speaks against the very scriptures he avows to believe (which, come to think of it, claiming divine authority for his personal opinions is: contrary to those scriptures he professes to believe). There’s a reason for that, of course. Look under “narcissism” in the DSM-IV. *sigh*
Medievalists, of course, simply labeled it as a deadly sin: pride. Masking it in a phony corn pone pseudo humility is just in the nature of the beast.
I’d not vote for the lousy bum for dogcatcher, and I know more than a few church folks in Arkansas who feel like fools for having voted for him in the past. Too bad it took so many of them (and not near enough, still *sigh*) so long to learn they’d been conned.
But, “A Little Closer To That Theocracy”? Nah. He’s stepping on his, urm, “little head” now, more and more (although, his “big head” seems more and more pointed, now I think about it… ). I expect him to begin faltering as the race goes on and the Mass Media Podpeope’s Hivemind loses interest in advancing him as their annointed goat for their candidate.
Huckabee is insane. I’m glad we both agree on that.
I’m glad we also agree that we need to harp on the Christians and all their crazy fundamentalist views.
What we need here in Canada is less Stockwell Day’s and more progressive religious figures like Mohamed Elmasry and Syed Soharwardy.
Wow. Still having that problem with a world that isn’t binary, Mike?
Its the difference between possible and likely Mike.
I’m no fan of Elmasry or Soharwardy, but they are highly unlikely to form a theocracy here in Canada or in the US. Indeed, neither is Osama or Mullah Omar or anyone else. Meanwhile, Stockwell Day is a Government minister and Huckabee is running for US President.
When I worry who is more likely to form a theocracy, it isn’t an obscure Edmonton Imam that comes to mind…
I get a kick out of people who insist on calling him Barack HUSSEIN Obama – as if constantly remind other bigots that this man is dangerous because he has a middle name!
I never you see people referring to Rudy William Louis Giuliani, or Fred Dalton Thompson.
It must be so hard to be so scared all the time.
Its the difference between possible and likely Mike.
I’m no fan of Elmasry or Soharwardy, but they are highly unlikely to form a theocracy here in Canada or in the US. Indeed, neither is Osama or Mullah Omar or anyone else. Meanwhile, Stockwell Day is a Government minister and Huckabee is running for US President.
As an atheist, I appreciate the sentiment. However, I’ve seen nothing but people on the left going out of their way to defend Soharwardy in this case. I defend neither Christian fundamentalists or Islamic fundamentalists in their beliefs. I do, defend both groups rights to hold their beliefs, though. In all my years of blog posting, I’d challenge someone to find me defending social conservatives. I have always been a stark secular, classical liberal.
But I see people on the left, going out of their way to defend “minorities” who can, in many ways be far more offensive in their thinking, than any member of the Christian-right I’ve ever met.
To say, you only defend the former, because it’s not likely they will come to power, is quite possibly the most absurd rationalization for defending outward un-progressiveness I’ve ever heard.
To that end, I wrote a whole post on this: http://noncogent.blogspot.com/2008/01/on-ezra-motive-of-left.html
All you say would be true Mike, if I ever defended Soharwardy. I think he’s almost as big a dolt as Levant.
As for ‘the left’, most of the posts I have read have been defending the HRC, not Soharwardy. Most of ‘the left’ that I have read are pretty clear that this is frivolous and will be dismissed, because it has no merits.
Further, I have actually sided, begrudgingly, with Ezra that the HCRs should not exist.
I make it a point to defend the principle even if it means defending people, like Ezra AND Soharwardy , whom a vehemently disagree with.
In this case, I choose to spend my time and resources defending against what I see is the greater danger to my life and freedom. In this case, it is a fundamentalist Christian running for the US presidency that is more of a danger than an obscure Edmonton Imam. And that is where I will spend my efforts.
I don’t think Huckabee has a chance in hell in being elected quite frankly. If anything, the looniness of the left around the world “telling America” not to vote for him because he’s Christian, is a good way to help Huckabee’s cause.
As someone who lived in the US for a long time, I can tell you, that American in general: not Republicans, not Democrats, like being told by “the world” how to vote in their own country.
I won’t disagree with your assessment of Huckabee, but I think this post is less about “telling America not to vote for him” than merely pointing out some information and letting them make up their own mind. A wise voter is an informed voter, no?
Lets face it, they are probably going to get either Obama or Hillary “Bush-lite” Clinton.
I assume this is one of the humour pieces which appears from time-to-time at SL. Saying Stock Day or Mike Huckabee edges a government closer to theocracy is like saying a progressive income tax edges us a little closer to Stalinism. For some reason I just don’t hear calls to enforce the commandments and the book of Leviticus in the same volume I hear proposals to eventually run western nations by sharia; the Judeo-Christian theocratic threat is relatively muted among its peers, even where the religious strain dominates.
It’s not even a little bit funny lrC.
If it is enshrined in law that the constitution comes from god instead of the people what does constitutional law become?
What does an offense against the constitution become?
Do you think that sacred law and charges of heresy in the highest courts of the land will provide any benefit to the people of the United States of America?
Some one sent me the latest medical term today: electile dysfunction: the inability to become aroused over any of the choices for president put forth by either party in the 2008 election year.
I think we have come dangerously close to a theocracy. I think it could get worse.
Huckabye? Huckabee wants to have adulterers, homosexuals and rape victims stoned to death. He also wants to make alcohol and music videos illegal, and make women 2nd class citizens and to take all girls out of school.
Oops, my bad, that’s another ‘religion’.
Hey, anybody but the PIAPS!
if you’re MAD
punish your country
VOTE for Hillary
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>If it is enshrined in law that the constitution comes from god instead of the people what does constitutional law become?
Whatever the elected politicians can pass. In the case of the US constitution, there is remarkably unambiguous language as to how powers are divided and to whom unenumerated rights belong, and that has not prevented people who covet some type of control or influence over others from having their way.
Me thinks yer missing the point lrC, wouldn’t a god given constitution, the highest law in the land, be found in a theocracy?
“I’m glad we also agree that we need to harp on the Christians and all their crazy fundamentalist views”
Funny how you moonbats dump on the Jesus Brigades, yet ignore Sharia, and the inbred misogyny and conservatism Islam presents.
Moral relativism is bigotry – writ large. Maybe it’s cause the hommus is better than chitlins…
Oh, YEAH? Well…how come you never complain about…NUNS? They’re creepy, and they move like they’ve got wheels under those habits.
“Funny how you moonbats dump on the Jesus Brigades, yet ignore Sharia, and the inbred misogyny and conservatism Islam presents.”
I been tryin’ to get Canajuns to stop proppin’ up The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. We got this here warlord Karzai and a buncha torturin’ lackeys runnin’ Afstan under constitutionally enshrined Sharia law.
We got good Canajun soldiers dyin’ so’s Karzai’s bunch can dole out the death penalty fer “humiliating Islam.” We’re fightin’ fer Karzai’s own brother who’s a well-known major opium dealer. Under Afghanistan’s new constitution, conversion from Islam to Christianity is a death sentence crime.
In September of 2007, Karzai was quoted:
Yessirree, HardboiledEgg, us lefties sure are givin’ Islamists a free ride. It’s them who are proppin’ up Karzai and Taliban-Lite who are really the problem.
JB
I’m a moonbat and I approve this message:
“I am categorically opposed to all forms of misogynist conservatism, be them Islamic, Christian, or Secular: I stand by the non-relative radical truth that women are people.”
Based on this radical belief, I do not support propaganda which suggests that the Big Western Hero with his chiseled chin must sweep in to SAVE! the poor, hajib wearing exotic beauties chained into slavery by their brutish Islamic masters.
Instead, I will listen to the feminist voices present in both Islam and the Middle East and help out where I can.
Did you know they exist? Yep! Yanar Mohammad, for example.