“Mike Huckabee’s declaration that we need to amend the Constitution to be in line with God’s standards easily drives secular liberals into a frenzy. On CNN’s Late Edition on Sunday, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin called that statement in conflict with ‘all of American constitutional history.’” (Tim Graham)
I think that there is a lot wrong about this statement. First, that the statement “in line with God’s standards” is in “conflict with ‘all of American Constitutional history’” I do not believe is true. We have freedom of religion, but only because our country and constitution were founded by Christian men seeking religious freedom from the Church of England. I also think that if Mike Huchabee ran for president way back when our country was first started and he made that statement, the people would probably cheer him on. But because we can barely even mention God or the Bible in public schools today, there are serious repercussions to making a statement such as that. Like the sending the “liberals into a frenzy”.
MIKE HUCKABEE: "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, is 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 of how we treat each other and how we treat the family."
The problem here is there are so many different interpretations of the Bible. What interpretation of the Bible should we conform the constitution to? In a perfect world when every religion believed in the same One True God, this idea would be great. But because mankind will eventually mend the Bible and then state law to conform to personal interests, like with Henry XIII, we have to keep the separation of Church and state.
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I think it's surprising that he would even say something like this while he's trying to get elected. The suggestion that we should change the Constitution to better reflect the Bible will likely make a whole lot of people decide not to vote for him.
Mike Huckabee has been known to make comments like this. That is one of the reasons why I am more for McCain. Huckabee always tries to make it a point to say how Christian he is. You are right about the fact that if he would have ran for President back in the day this would have been the best idea ever. However, times have changed. Don't get me wrong, I want our country to become more Christian, but in order to run a country certain things have to be done.
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