If I have a vote, I would useit totake a brief stationbreak from the internecine Democratic political warfare and focus on the GOP politics of identity and/or victimization, just for the fun of it. Heck, I guess one of those guys could get elected president. If it is Mike Huckabee, this campaign speech from a couple days ago might come back to bite him. Huckabee has frequently been too coy by half about the impact of his evangelical faith on his politics. But here he was pretty out front:

"I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution. But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family."

Needelss to say, this has been making the rounds of the blogosphere, though I haven't seen much MSM coverage. Hat tip to the Dallas Morning News religion blog, which also has the video link.

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

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