Huck Reducks
January 18, 2008, 6:02 pm
Posted by David Gibson
Following up on an earlier post about Mike Huckabee’s ear-catching claim that we should “amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards,” the Huckster has expanded on his remarks in an interview with Beliefnet. It’s not quite as fuzzy as his apparent reversal on a federal smoking ban, but he does not grasp the nettle of the biblical interpretation problem. Except for marriage, because as he says, without a constitutional amendment “we’re going to change the definition of marriage so that it can mean two men, two women, a man and three women, a man and a child, a man and animal.” Luckily, my cat died last year.
He has forgotten the ultimate fear: that a man and a woman might beget another Huckster, and then there would be 2 of them!
With the record of heterosexual child-bearing, we might need tighter controls on who can, should, and might be able to sire more folk.
The president swears to uphold the Constitution, not to vow to rework it in his own version of what God wants.
BTW, according to Rolling Stone, Huck’s kid “lynched a stray dog at Scout camp in 1998″ and was “arrested for trying to board a plane with a loaded Glock last year.”
It just makes me heartsick that with such good Gonzo to be had, H.S. Thompson has blasted himself to smithereens. I can hear the screed running now about our God-given rights to strangle animals and wave guns around on airplaines.
In defense of Huckabee, the Constitution does allow for it to be amended by the people. The question which has not yet been asked of him is: would he try to have the Constitution amended so that it allowed or, worse, required a theocracy? If the answer is Yes, then I would find him very scary.
He seems to me to be a very intelligent, but very, very ill-educated man. What a pity.
Did he approve of his kids behavior? I daresay the answer is no. The children of conspicuous people are constantly getting in trouble, with the sons of parsons heading the lists, it seems.
Ann, I keep forgetting other Catholics do not share my fundie-phobias.
Yes, the Constitution can be amended, but the fundie mindset is that the First Amendment has been construed to restrict THEIR rights to worship, i.e., foist their prayers on everybody else and engage in displays of piety like hanging the Ten Commandments in public buildings at public expense.
I have nothing against the Ten Commandments (though it made quite a poor movie), but I’d rather see my school district use the money for counseling kids who have, say, a proclivity to torture animals.
I have no idea how Huckabee responded to his kid’s behavior, and it’s not germane to his candidacy–except where fundamentalists themselves have demanded personal rectitude from candidates and their families.
I share Jean’s fundie-phobia.
But I wonder if the Huckster will convince enough South Carolina evangelicals to fight the predicted snow today and vote for him?
Anyone know the status of this bill pending before Congress: (source is the New York Times) the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act, sponsored by Barack Obama, Charles Schumer and others. This could prove instrumental at stressful times when we are trying to find out what’s really going on.
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The version first introduced in the Senate by Obama in 2005 (S. 1975) died in committee. Rep. Rahm Emanuel introduced essentially the same bill in the H.R., and it passed by voice vote on June 25, 2007. The bill, H.R. 1281, was then referred to the Committee on the Judiciary in the Senate. In 2007 Obama also reintroduced his 2005 Senate bill, now S. 453 and with 19 co-sponsors, but it is yet to be voted on. (It was added to the full Senate debate schedule in October 2007.)
The text of S. 453, and links to H.R. 1281, can be found here:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-453