Five Before Chaos

And so the godidiocy continues from Mike Huckabee. Now it’s how we “need to amend the Cosntitution to meet God’s standards.” From Pensito Review:

Huckabee:

“[Some of my opponents] 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.

So basically, we’re talking about a Christian form of sharia (the Islamic law that theocratic Muslim states have).This stuff will undoubtedly win him some votes in Kansas and Oklahoma, to be sure. But it has about as much of a chance of happening a he does getting elected. And in Huckabee’s America, will he be consistent with Biblical law, or just the convenient ones, as these evangelical whackjobs usually are?:

In fact, while being gay is an abomination-class sin — along with eating shellfish, leftovers and snakes, reading a horoscope, burning incense, women wearing pants, arrogance, improperly covering your poop in the desert, to name a few — there are only Ten Commandments, and if you believe any of it, you have believe that being an adulterer is as immoral, and thus should be as illegal, as being gay, if not moreso.

I don’t poop in the desert… that’s not to say I won’t some day, but I have pooped in the forest. What does the Bible say about that? Am I off the hook? If this guy weren’t so serious, it’d be funny. Problem is there’s a number of people who believe the same horseshit. The Right’s Field has also picked up on this, but it focuses on Huck’s push-poll efforts as of late.

I know, some people on our side genuinely worry that Huck’s populist rhetoric and aw-shucks non-threatening demeanor can somehow get him to the White House. I beg to differ. There is so much well-documented dirt on this guy, godidiot related and otherwise, that I don’ think he’ll make it out of the primaries, let alone win the general. I really think this guy is the last gasp of the religious right.

The ‘big split in the fundie ranks’ story rages on. This time, Robert Novak in the WaPo rakes in the big bucks by stating the glaringly obvious:

But the situation is not a simple confrontation between the Christian right and Giuliani. The Gallup data suggest that Dobson and the Salt Lake City group may be out of touch with rank-and-file churchgoers.

Gee, that took a lot of hard thinking, didn’t it – the majority of churchgoing Americans aren’t homphobic, intolerant, anti-intellectual sheep sitting around waiting for the Rapture? Who knew?