Fellow Bloggers,
Are you ready for some life style changes?
If one candidate gets elected & has their way, yours will be changed. Whether you like it or not. Whether you want it to or not.
Are you ready to have even more of your hard earned money going into taxes & used for something that you might not only like & are against, but is in violation of a Constitutional principle?
If one candidate gets elected & has their way, say, “Bye bye hard earned money.”
Are you ready to become a second class citizen?
If one candidate gets elected & has their way, you’ll get your chance to see how some of us have felt for years.
Who is this candidate? How will he change my life, you might ask? What’s going to happen to me? Darn good questions. And you should be asking them, & more. There’s been a lot said in the media @ all of the candidates. But what is always important is what is not mentioned or tucked away. So let me introduce you to the candidate. Go ahead. Get comfortable.
Ladies & Gentlemen. It is my honor & responsibility to present, (insert drum roll, blaring trumpets & choir here) presidential candidate…..MIKE HUCKABEE!
That’s right. Mike. That weight losing, joke telling, guitar playing, affable, story telling, Mike Huckabee. Now some of you are probably wondering just where all of this is going. Let me tell you why I consider Mike PUBLIC ENEMY #1, maybe even more so than the Mittster from Michigan.
You see, Mike wants to change not only your life, but he’s willing to rewrite the Constitution to do it. How & why? Never thought you’d ask. The how, Mike made perfectly clear, in public & on the record. Why? Same thing. Let me tell you in his own words.
As reported on MSNBC, among many other news organizations, Mike said, “Some of my opponents do not want to change the Constitution, 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 & how we treat the family)” Unfortunately, he didn’t give the particulars of his interpretation of any standards, which, stragely enough, have been debated amongst many religious scholars. Although not reported as widely as this statement, Mike made a half hearted attempt to back pedal out of this sticky situation when pressed. He failed to convince anyone.
I have to wonder if Mike is confused, duplicitous or is having memory problems because when interviewed on Meet The Press, he went on record to say, “The key issue of real faith is that it never can be forced on someone. And never would I want to use the government institutions to impose mine or anybody else’s faith or to restrict.”
Huh? Which is it Mike? It’s bad enough Hillary is blamed for offering confusing, sometimes contradictory statements, do we have to add you to the list? Do you want to change the secular Democratic Republic into a theocracy, or not? Which side of your mouth will you use to answer the American public?
Now before you reach for the “page back,” button, thinking that Uncle Rich is going on another diatribe against Christians, allow me to tell you that I am, indeed, going in that direction, but am taking a slight detour in favor of some Christians. That’s right. This time, I’m on your side.
While showing a proclivity for religious domination, or not, as you can see, it’s hard to tell when he’s telling the truth, he seems to have a problem with governing, as well. Showing a problem with religion, in 1994 as Lt. Governor of Arkansas, Mike watched as then Democratic governor, Jim Guy Tucker, refused to sign a proclamation declaring Christian Heritage Week reasoning that he did not think it was appropriate to honor a particular faith.
But when Governor Tucker went out of town, Republican Lt. Governor, Christian evangelical & Baptist minister Huckabee, as acting chief executive, enthusiastically went ahead & signed the proclamation anyway, saying that he was taking a stand against “Christophobia.” He said that it was a word he just made up. Source, Washington Post, December 21, 2007
It also seems that Mike likes to make things up, including a disrespect for the chain of command when it suits his purposes. This would seem to go hand in hand with stated plans for the Constitution.
Not to put too fine a point on it, two other examples show his true colors. At a 1998 convention for Southern Baptists in Salt Lake City, Utah, he said, “I hope we answer the alarm clock & take this nation back for Christ.” Source, pretty much any major news publication. Take your pick.
On his proficiency in understanding the world around him, in this case, the theory of evolution, & his thinking processes that might affect us all, he said, “I believe God created the heavens & the earth.” I wasn’t there when he did it, so how he did it, I don’t know.” Source, Associated Baptist Press, 12.05.07. Huh? What? Because he wasn’t there, he didn’t know how it came to be. But because he wasn’t there, he believes that there was one cause. And he wants to foist this kind of reasoning on the American public.
On his respect for the judicial process & judges, he said, “There are some people who should simply get the heave-ho.” Source, The Guardian, 12.06.07. I guess he has his own way of dealing with people who don’t agree with him.
I promised to get to my Christian friends & I will. Till now, only non Christians, including atheists & agnostics have had reason to fear the possibility of theocratic rule. Well guess what kids? Even if you’re a Christian, you now have something else to worry about. As if there wasn’t enough. Let Uncle Rich tell you why.
It comes as no surprise that the majority of people in the US are Christians, at least 76%. But what I didn’t know was that at least 34 denominations are identified with Christianity. Source, Adherents, National Survey of Religious Identification (NSRI), American Religious Identity (ARI). But, & this is a really big but, not all of them share the same “standards” as Mike. Are you a Methodist, Pentacostal, Mormon, (Oh yeah. His ideas are going to really fly with them), Christian Scientist or Mennonite? Well, if Mike has his way, you will be relegated to second class status as some of us have enjoyed under the Bush regime. Some of your taxes will be added to the billions spent annually on faith based initiatives which violate the principle of separation.
Lest any of you still think that I might be against Christians, think again. Not even all Christian evangelicals want to be like Mike. He thought he would lead, & heavily lead, with the votes of Christian evangelicals in the South, especially in the SC primary. Wrong. He was edged out by John McCain, 33% to 30%. Source, Associated Baptist Press, 12.20.08.
In my humble opinion, Mike, & many others like him have not yet completely grasped a few simple concepts.
They have a troubling tendency of translating the black & white literalism of theology to the realism of the political world. If he wants to be president, he hasn’t yet realized that is a secular office in a secular government. He hasn’t yet realized, or is reluctant to admit, that the Constitution is a secular document that doesn’t contain word one that authorizes the President or anyone else in the government to make any kind of religious decision. That’s the way the founding fathers echoed the wishes of the people in writing.
I would like to ask Mike a question. If elected, does he intend to be the president of ALL the people, just Christian people or the President of only certain kinds of Christian people? I would really like to hear his answer. In public & on the record, if he dares. JATFUR.
RichK