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He wants an amendment that defines marriage, and he wants one that protect life, beginning at conception. There are many on the Internet who think he's going to turn the country into an islamofacist dictatorship, or worse. But I think someone correctly pointed out that it is very hard to change the Constitution.

I'm sure there are millions of Huckabee supporters in a country of nearly 300 million people. I'm also sure that Mike Huckabee has no hope of even approaching the Republican nomination.

Look, it's easy to caricature a guy like Huckabee as representative of mainstream Republicans. I don't think it's true. There are plenty of evangelical Christians in the GOP ranks who are not down with Huckabee's line.

As for me, well, I'm not so sure G.W. Bush will be remembered as the worst president in U.S. history. I'm sure there will be plenty of votes along those lines. But I'm also reasonably sure the country has a few centuries left in its history. So maybe talk of civilization's end is a waste of time. Best seller, sure. But waste of time to be sure.

I can hear the battle cry now: "An atheist in every pew."

Huckabee is locked, loaded and prepared to fire the first shot in the second civil war.

Christians who are fine with politicians who drink from deep in the well of Christianity before setting policy should remember that not all religions are so generally benign in their teachings. One need only look to the restorations of the caliphate in pockets of the Middle East for a wake-up call.

Or, you could find that one day devoted Scientologist Tom Cruise was elected president. That would be, um, bad.

... "God's law" usually just means "my own less-than-divine interpretation of what I think God wants other people to do." It's really scary to me that a man who wants to run a country that holds freedom of religion as one of its highest precepts sounds so blithely ready to ignore all the folks who don't believe the same way he does.

I think religion should always serve as our national conscience, but I don't see why some people seem to fail to understand that the same laws protecting their own right to believe as they choose must protect everyone else's, too.

Huckabee sounded so human and personable in a story I heard about him on the radio. But the more I hear about his beliefs, the more they alarm me.

Get your techie guys to make a wiki page on this site and let's draft a Huckabee-style constitution. As well as the one with the disco and chocolate in it.

Jill Miller Zimon
Writes Like She Talks

That is really pretty scary. God's standards, sheesh... that can mean anything. My god approves of disco, chocolate and getting up late. Can we use my god's standards?

Did he really say that? Oy. I think the word "OY" needs to be in the Constitution. Often.

Oy.

I cannot believe he said that.

Have you read up much on one of his senior advisors? Charmaine Yoest. She's on a leave from the Family Research Council where she's vp of communications.

Scary communicating.

Jill Miller Zimon
Writes Like She Talks

I take a little time to get a bite to eat and you steal my thunder!

Suffice to say, Huckabee would encounter strenuous disagreement from James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Adams.

I would pick a bone with you about "diversity" making our nation great -- e pluribus unum, and all that -- especially since you even go on to extol the nation's "cohesiveness." But otherwise, I think you're right. How about that!