Letters to the Editor
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Theoretically...
... you are right, but surely Huckabee is just making the standard play for the votes of evangelical christians.
Look, for half the people in this country the main issues are health, education, care of the elderly, civil rights, the environment, global warming, oil vs nuclear vs biofuels, protection of the food supply, caged chickens and pigs, freedom to abort, etc.
For the other half of the people in this country the most important issues are not aborting and not marrying someone of the same sex. Not me, not my family, not my neighbor, not no one. Don't ask me why, but these things are terribly important for many people.
Now Huckerby, when asked in one of the debates how his Christianity would affect his presidency, replied that he would work off the Golden Rule--doing unto others as he would wish they do unto him, as opposed to, presumably, the tit-for-tat that has hitherto ruled. Dang, the man almost said he would turn the other cheek if despitefully used--as recommended by God himself.
Now his core supporters have gotten back to him and said: "What in the Lord's name were you playing at there Huckster? We want the electric chair for abortionists and we want gays castrated, or at least to have to remain single all of their days so they can never have legitimate children. Now straighten up your act or we will vote for that Mormon dude."
And, lo, Huckerby saw that it was so and that this was good advice, and that it would keep his name in the headlines, and that it was pleasing to the Lord.
And he went unto the press, and he said: "Yeah, verily, the Lord hath spoken unto me and commanded that the US constitution be amended according to his (my) word and that we have trade sanctions against any country which allows gay marriage, which is practically everywere, and is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord. Ditto abortion, even if the planet is absurdly overpopulated by our species, whose orgins are unknown despite anything Darwin may have theorized."
Disclaimer:
It ain't necessarily so, it ain't necessarily so
De t'ings dat yo' li'ble to read in de Bible
It ain't necessarily so
[by Ira Gershwin]