Following up on an earlier postabout Mike Huckabee's ear-catching claim that we should "amend the Constitution so its in Gods standards," the Huckster has expanded onhis 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 "were 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 diedlast year.

David Gibson is the director of Fordham’s Center on Religion & Culture.

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