Huckabee, who said he was not there as a presidential candidate, warmed up his conservative audience by declaring that overturning the Roe v. Wade court ruling was not enough because it would leave individual states to decide their own laws on abortion – a moral issue where there is a right and a wrong, contends the former pastor. He argues that a constitutional amendment that defines life at conception is necessary to prevent “50 versions of right and wrong.”
“How could we expect God’s future blessing on this country if we cannot come to the logical conclusion that every life He creates He creates with the same equal intrinsic value and worth as another?” Huckabee asked.
After listing several huge problems in America, the former preacher said the purpose of Christians on this earth, as taught by Jesus, is to be salt and light. Salt preserves while light overcomes darkness.
“We are taught that we are the salt of the earth. That means that when something is spoiling, we are to be there to keep it from spoiling,” Huckabee explained. “We miss that if we think the purpose of believers is to be really, really well behaved in church.
“Being well behaved in church is a fine thing, but we don’t change the world by being behaved in church,” he pointed out to a receptive audience. “We change the world when we are the salt and that means we sometimes will irritate and sometimes agitate, but we will preserve.”
Why is it that his religious views possess the power to decide all questions, regardless as to whether or not they are political? And what is his method of interpretation, for the constitution and religion?
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Huckabee is an ass, of course, and his efforts to get elected with "red meat" alone are as cartoonish as they are increasingly desperate. He's of course a goner, as in reality he always was.
Now that the palpable threat of America becoming a Theocracy is gone, what is next for the "Party of Ideas"?
Thank goodness, nobody whose election will continue the corporate stranglehold while at the same time getting tens of thousands more soldiers and civillians killed.
Thank goodness, too, that the GOP standard bearer won't be someone who perpetuates American-sanctioned torture.
But these are all "BDS"-related worries anyway, not grounded in reality.
The real, tangible threat was that the GOP being rehashing the Wilde trials while inciting an unprecedented boom in the coathanger industry.
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