Shut the Huck Up!

I'm not sure there's a more subtle summary of what the Republican Party has become than to watch Mike Huckabee explain his belief that the Constitution of the United States of America be amended to meet God's standards. In doing so, Huckabee selects two issues that he deems God believes to be important, abortion and gay marriage. That’s it. Those two things are “God’s standards” according to Huckabee, the right wing, the Christian right and the millions of other Republican activists who think God’s on their side.



By selecting only those two issues, Huckabee intentionally leaves out the hundreds of other standards God set out in the word. Such as sympathy for the poor; turning the other cheek; not having idols; women not speaking unless their husbands tell them they can; etc., etc. Huckabee limits God to two random issues, which to me is worse than leaving God out all together. Who are any of us to limit God? God is not bound by human words or human deeds; and neither is God limited or bound by the Constitution. This is religious fanaticism.

These people are religious extremists. No different than the ones Fox News loves to rant about all day long. This is the very reason why a separation of church and state is so necessary and why the Founding Fathers, who were afraid of Puritan influence on the public and any state run religion, insisted religion be separate from the government.