Letters to the Editor
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I have it on good authority - Rev. Huckabee himself - that Jesus was pro-capital punishment.
That said - how about an amendment mandating the death penalty for anyone who claims to speak in the name of the All Powerful God of Christianity???
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Huckabee's in good shape.
If he doesn't get his way, God's way that is, his wife and the "little friend" she keeps in her purse will become his back-up and closest, if not deadliest, supporter.
I say let's arm everyone, everyone by God, and shoot it out to see which side God wants to win. No cry babies allowed. So far school's still out on which side God's on in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria. Apparently, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan are satisfied that God wants Kings and Dictators to manage their affairs. Lucky them. Israel is just itching to get into the foray. Pakistan and India are apparently waiting in the wings for their God-based determination. That one should be a real bell ringer given they both are armed to the teeth with nukes. Good thing God's immune to radioactive fallout...
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Confusion
Argggh!! You pose too many questions! You confuse my mind. What is the meaning of all these questions? God's word is simple and easy to understand. Please, no questions and making the think.
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Don't forget the First Amendment!
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Maybe Huckabee can appoint literal minded judges who believe that this only prevents Congress, but not individual states, from promoting religion.
What the heck, why tip-toe around it? Just add "Under God" somewhere to the Constitution like they did the Pledge of Allegiance and get rid of the whole idea of the separation of church and state since that's what Huckabee really wants anyway.
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Stevio
We are arming everybody.
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bignose:
I think you are right. However, we may have missed a number of clear thinkers who will , for sure, be the first to be shot.
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Keep on talking...
Jethro, hopefully you'll wake enough of the sheep up to see how scary your theocracy will be...
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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]
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Constitutional Amendments
I like that idea of an amendment outlawing haircuts.
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Loophole in the Constitution...
The founding fathers didn't seem to prohibit presidents from creating signing statements respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Constitution should be amended for Elvis
We should also move Christmas up two weeks to celebrate the birth of the real King.
If Huckabee gets the nomination I fully expect stigmata at one of the Presidential debates; locusts, frogs and boils plaguing the east and west coasts (and Chicago); casting devils out of Britney Spears and a miraculous curing of Bob Dole's whithered arm. Anything less would dissappoint me terribly...unless he simply speaks in tongues and plays with snakes on Meet the Press. That would be pretty cool, too.
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What Jesus Would Do...
How about an amendment mandating food, water, shelter, and health care for all Americans? Like necessities-as-a-human right. If anything's truly Christian, it would be something like that, because, you know, Jesus was about taking care of the poor, the weak, the sick, the vulnerable, the hungry.
What he wasn't about was tax cuts for the rich, mass militarism, screwing over the poor, mindless, empty consumerism, and the destruction of the environment. Only in America does this heretical Christianist doctrine hold real political sway, without irony.
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as long as...
As long as we're talking about implementing churchy things into the Constitution, it would be pretty awesome to legally enforce just war theory.
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what he means is
he'd start with whacking the first amendment.
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Phew! So that's all he's wants?
Thank goodness, all he wants to do is remove my ability to control the fate of my own body, and write me and my family out of the Constitution so we have to flee to Canada. And here we thought he was proposing something radical. What a relief!