Letters to the Editor
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Classic and stupid
This is classic behavior of the delusional Christian right. It doesn't matter if you ACT like a Christian--you know, love thy neighbor, help the poor, turn the other cheek--as long as you say you're a Christian. We've seen this with Dubya his entire presidency: on one hand he talks about his faith incessantly and is supposedly a "good Christian man" to the 300-pound lady waddling out of Wal-Mart, while on the other he illegally invades countries, supports torture and rapes the environment while ignoring millions without health insurance. But it doesn't matter, because he TALKS a good game of being a Christian.
Huckabee is no different. He's obviously dangerously naive and deluded by his faith, to the point where a single pastor's endorsement carries more weight than a police or corrections file containing the expert opinion of cops, lawyers, judges and psychologists. And this man wants to be president? What would happen if an NIE landed in his lap with 99.9% bulletproof evidence that Iran was no threat to the U.S., but one influential minister whispered in his ear that God had told him the U.S. should nuke Tehran? Can you say holocaust?
Until Christians actually practice the values they purport to revere, I don't want another of them setting foot in MY Oval Office. As Gandhi said, "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ."