The quote below by Huckabee is so insane, I still can't quite believe it. If he really means what he says, he wants the turn the US into a Christian Taliban state, where we would be ruled by what Mike Huckabee believes is "God's standards." And how would Huckabee know what God wants?
Here is the unbelievable quote from Huckabee:
Please tell me Republicans aren't seriously considering nominating this guy. But this is only one of four crazy stories coming out of the Huckabee camp today. First, you can read about how he wants to change the constitution here. Then, read how he signed a document saying women should "submit" to their husbands. Then, read about how one of his senior advisers thinks we should post a cop in front of every mosque (imagine if he said that about synagogues) and that genocide against Sunnis in Iraq would be acceptable.
Then read about how he wants to stop all immigration from any country that sponsors or harbors terrorists. That would mean we would end immigration from "allies" like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Pakistan. It might even mean we end immigration from Germany where some of the 9/11 bombers lived and that recently released a defendant involved in the 9/11 plot (because we wouldn't cooperate and give them evidence we collected from our detainees, probably because we tortured them). In fact, you know the country where all of the 9/11 bombers lived right before they committed their heinous act of terror? The United States.
The man has to think before he talks. His own camp had to back away from his last statement about ending immigration from all these countries. But the bigger problem seems to be that he has thought some of these things through and these crazy statements are his true opinions. Now, that's really scary.
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Huckabee Advocates Changing the Constitution to Live By "God's Standards"
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46. Ho hum. The founding fathers' desire for separation of church and state has been posted ad infinitum on AOL blogs. It's getting too boring to go find the quotes and stick them on the blog.
There is no 'fallacy of separation of church and state'. You are an idiot, Sbanks.
Linda at 3:03PM on Jan 17th 2008
47. PS I have the IQ documentation......DO YOU???
Sbanks at 2:50PM on Jan 17th 2008
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My IQ's bigger than yours is the best you can come up with?
What good would an IQ of 300 be to a total egotist dick, other than enabling him to irritate decent people with more efficiency? Hypothetical question...
Godless Heathen Brian at 3:10PM on Jan 17th 2008
48. Clif, what's with this bozo? What a clown.
Godless Heathen Brian at 3:13PM on Jan 17th 2008
49. Maybe Sbanks is Gassett the Gassbag's roommate. He sounds a lot like him. Lots of name calling and thinking he's made his point when he hasn't a clue.
Linda at 3:12PM on Jan 17th 2008
50. Another pottymouth christian with a rebar up his ass.
Linda at 3:14PM on Jan 17th 2008
51. Do you pray to jesus with that mouth, sbanks?
Linda at 3:15PM on Jan 17th 2008
52. I don't care if you're Marilyn VosSavant, if you brag about your IQ, you haven't learned anything important in life.
Godless Heathen Brian at 3:16PM on Jan 17th 2008
53. Huckabee wants to rewrite the consttution to support christian beliefs.Fortunately,you Americans have a system of checks and balances to stop man made theocracies.We here in Africa are not so fortunate.As much as i appreciate what Huckabee is trying to do,in the light of some serious moral problems in America,at the end of the day it won't work.Morality can't be induced by laws,it can only work if men's hearts are changed,or if everyone becomes(in the USA),a christian,which is not going to happen.
Huckabee should realise also that even if the constitution of the USA was replaced by the bible tommorow,problems
relating to interpretation and ill treatment of minorites are going to arise.It is right to stand against sin in any nation.Just do not do it as a Christian Ayatollah.
P.S.;In my country of origin,Nigeria,Christians are against unifying religion with politics.Why?because we share our country with Muslims,and in some areas Christians are a minority.There has been a lot of problem with implementation of Sharia law(muslim law)in the Muslim north of our country,but for me,the biggest problem is that most of the states in our country who implememt Muslim law are governed by governors who themselves are corrupt,giving religion a bad name.
Huck,stand for what is right.Keep Christianity as a conscience,not the ruling ideology.Its credibility is at stake.
Non Christians,be thankful you live in a country where Democracy works.Checks and balances always do the trick.
aniekan thomas at 3:30PM on Jan 17th 2008
54. Checks and balances always do the trick.
aniekan thomas at 3:30PM on Jan 17th 2008
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Yeah, too bad they're being systematically gutted by christian dominionists.
Godless Heathen Brian at 3:37PM on Jan 17th 2008
55. SBanks said: "sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged, but not any one denomination. Any attempt to level and discard all religion would have been viewed with universal indignation...It must be considered as the foundation on which the whole structure rests...In this age there can be no substitute for Christianity...That was the religion of the founders of the republic, and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants." That pretty much says it all. Also check out James Madison on the subject of our duty to elect "Christian" leaders."
REALLY? Well, let's take a look at what those founding fathers actually SAID, shall we?
"In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people."
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise." [April 1, 1774]
James Madison, principle writer of the US constitution
“For we know that the common law is that system of law which was introduced by the Saxons on their settlement of England, and altered from time to time by proper legislative authority from that time to the date of the Magna Charta, which terminates the period of the common law ... This settlement took place about the middle of the fifth century. But Christianity was not introduced till the seventh century; the conversion of the first Christian king of the Heptarchy having taken place about the year 598, and that of the last about 686. Here then, was a space of two hundred years, during which the common law was in existence, and Christianity no part of it ... That system of religion could not be a part of the common law, because they were not yet Christians.”
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814, responding to the claim that Chritianity was part of the Common Law of England, as the United States Constitution defaults to the Common Law regarding matters that it does not address.
“Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.” -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814
“Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting ‘Jesus Christ,’ so that it would read ‘A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;’ the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination. -Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, in reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom
More Jefferson quotes:
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."
"Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies."
"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution."
“Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.” -Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.” -Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.
“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.” -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814
“And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.” -Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823
“Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.”
-- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781-82
Tatiana at 3:47PM on Jan 17th 2008
56. Way to go, Tatiana!
Godless Heathen Brian at 3:56PM on Jan 17th 2008
57. Huckabee, oh huckabee
you sound like a schmuck-abee
and quack like a duck-abee
You're quick with the yuck-abee
And on Jesus you're stuck-abee
And inside your head is a big pile of muck-abee.
And since your dear wife
Is built like a truck-abee
It's been a long time
Since you've had a fuck-abee
-GHB
Godless Heathen Brian at 4:03PM on Jan 17th 2008
58. My son said that Huckabee thinks that the Flintstones was a documentary. I can't stop laughing.
Steve Seivers at 4:08PM on Jan 17th 2008
59. haha thats good stuff steve. That makes the jetsons like a crystal ball into our future. Huckabee is a schmuck.
danny at 4:15PM on Jan 17th 2008
60. I added a bit more at the end, so here's the final version:
Huckabee, oh Huckabee
You sound like a schmuck-abee
and quack like a duck-abee
You're quick with the yuck-abee
And on Jesus you're stuck-abee
So inside your head is a big pile of muck-abee
And since your dear wife
Is built like a truck-abee
It's been a long time
Since you've had a fuck-abee
If you get elected
We're all out of luck-abee
-GHB
Godless Heathen Brian at 4:22PM on Jan 17th 2008