Huckabee WTF?
Ian | 15 January, 2008 | 19:43We all know the Republican candidates have been wearing their evangelism on their sleeve in the US elections recently, but Huckabee (the front-runner) has blown the top, saying it’s time for a “to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards.” Even if he’s unsuccessful, it’s still scary this man is running for president (and doing pretty well).
If you’re in the US, please do what you can to keep the loonies out, and if you’re not, try to put pressure in anyway you can. Most liberal, and even many conservatives (theist or not) can see the advantages of keeping church and state separate.
(Via Pharyngula)
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Hey Ian, I thought Mike Huckabee was going to win the religionist ‘Shot Themselves In the Foot’ award for the week but then Tom Cruise decided it would be a good idea to allow himself to be taped spouting lunacy. Holy Christ, man, that one left my brain broke! I don’t know if you caught the video on YouTube before it was forcibly removed but if not you might want to see if anyone else is airing it.
http://doubtingthomas426.wordpress.com/
Found somewhere that still has the Cruise video in case you’re interested
http://gawker.com/5002269/the-cruise-indoctrination-video-scientology-tried-to-suppress
[...] isn’t to say he’s the scariest (remember what Huckabee has said), but merely to say that all Republican candidates are likely to push an evangelical [...]
Luckily it looks like McCain will win the nomination. And then he can stop pandering to the far right and shore up his base in the middle = real debate between Democrats and Republicans rather than Democrats and Jesus.
Huckabee is a joke.