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Today, in Michigan: " 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," Huckabee said, referring to the need for a constitutional human life amendment and an amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
Now let's consider what would be entailed in bringing the Constitution in to God's standards. First, we will have to decide if Huck is referring to the God of the Old Testament or the one of Jesus' New Testament.
If we go with the OT, then Huckabee would have to amend the Constitution to incorporate Mosaic Law, which includes the Ten Commandments. There are something like 613 'laws' within the Pentateuch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah If Huckabee chooses to take this route, then all Americans would be following the Jewish Torah. Men would have beards; women would be labeled 'unclean' during certain times; slavery would be re-introduced, etc. We would all have to fore go everything science, history, and technology has brought forth in the last 6,000 years, for these contradict the literal Bible. This is a basic tenet of fundamentalism of any variety.
If Huck, chooses the NT god, then we should promote the idea that Huckabee is really a Christian communist! For Jesus instructed his followers to give half of all they had to the poor. For the rich to sell their possessions and give them to those in need. That 'neighbors' should take care of the widows and orphans. Such a system, leaves no room for individually held wealth and conspicuous capitalism. Our campaign should warn that Huckabee will 'redistribute' wealth and destroy the upper class!
I see almost unlimited opportunity to 'nail' Huck, once we clarify which of God's standards he wants the Constitution to confirm.
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