Tuesday, February 19, 2008

regarding your candidate

From: MnS <emmness@gmail.com>
> Muddy,
>
> I have not said much regarding your obvious favorite canditate ... Huckabee,
> although you seem to be enamored by him for some reason or another.
> He was interesting for a while ...... until he went to michigan and said
> something that scared me .... and should really scare a lot of people. As
> everyone probably knows by now ... I firmly and truly am a believer in the
> separation of church and state. The two things that cause more wars and
> problems on this planet (politics and religion) should NEVER be allowed to
> work in concert with each other. This is really the main reason America is
> even here today.... religious persecution. Agreed ?
> So here is what he said in a speech in Michigan ....
>
> "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 -- 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."
>
> Now THAT is scary .... Read the constitution .... it makes no mention of god
> .... it's about the PEOPLE ! And along comes someone like Huckabee ... that
> wants to change our constitution and inject religion into it.
>
> Where does that leave the aetheists ? Or people from other religions ?
> To me ... that seems like, once again, someone trying to cram their
> religious beliefs down my throat ... but now with the power of the
> presidency behind it trying to force it on EVERYONE !
>
> I'm sorry ..... but, I don't freakin' think so.

No comments: