Doesn't anybody around here know his Bible?

It's "Widow's mite", i.e. a coin of very small value - not "might". That basically reverses the meaning of the reference.

After all, Huck probably knows his Bible pretty well, but that doesn't make him any less batshit crazy. If anything, it makes him MORE batshit crazy.

Sorry, folks -- you're right about the spelling, and I'm changing it within the post. I'm trying to work pretty quickly here tonight, and was going off the spelling provided by the transcription service we use, which Google seemed to back. Thanks for the catch.

"And government ought to undergird a family, not undermine a basic family's (sic) rights to raise their own kids," Huckabee said. "[...] we should honor the words of our forefathers who said all of us are created equal. And that means that every single person has intrinsic worth and value."

So nice to hear Huckabee will now be supporting gay rights -- not only backing anti-discrimination laws, since we ALL have intrinsic worth and value worth protecting, but also pushing for marriage equality so that ALL families have the same rights and benefits to raise their kids.

Right? Right? Oh, wait. No.

who don't know our bible, anyone care to explain the references?

Heck, I'm an atheist, and I know the Bible - better than most Christians!

They seem to find that very confusing. :D

The Widow's Mite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_the_widow's_mite

The point of the parable of the Widow's Mite is relatively straightforward. A poor widow gives only two mites to a temple, while wealthier people give far more. But Jesus points out that the mites were all the widow had, while the larger gifts of the wealthy represented a relatively tiny portion of their wealth.

In other words, the gift of the poor woman was worth more than the gift of the rich.

This is an interesting point in many ways, and is relevant to a number of fields; economics, for instance. It's also a good illustration of why the Bible is a useful reference tool, well worth reading even for non-Christians. I found it to be an extremely useful source of quotations and concepts when I was writing papers in college, in writing of all sorts since I graduated, and while debating Christians online.