Huckabee and the Constitution

I like Huckabee, at least, from a personal perspective he seems like a pretty cool guy. However a lot of his ideas I disagree with.

I'm glad he's not ashamed of his faith, he shouldn't be. However, to hear him come out about how he would like to change the Constitution be more in line with the Bible was quite scary.

Where is the separation of Church and State? Do people forget how the United States came to be? People had been escaping religious persecution. What happened to the idea of freedom of faith. I think that the President of the United States should be guided by his or her beliefs and ideals. However, when it comes to religious faith I think that the President has no business enforcing anything in that arena.

Everybody should be free to worship as they see fit. Civil laws should be based on a common moral understanding that we all can agree with. But the idea of changing the Constitution to be more like the Bible... The first question would be, more like which part of the Bible. The New Testament? So, lets exclude all Jewish and non-Christian American Citizens? What would making the Constitution more like the Bible accomplish? It's one thing for a President to say 'I believe marriage should be between a man and a woman' and quite another for said President to say that's the way it's going to be, because he or she says so.

The argument is that after all, the majority chose the President, therefore, shouldn't this mean that the President speaks for the majority of the country's citizens? Well, the reality is more complicated and people might vote for a candidate because they best align with their own beliefs, even when they might not agree with everything the President believes.

I don't think the President should have any right or business imposing religious views, concepts or morals on the citizens. To do so is to take us a step closer to a Theocracy and that's not a path I think we want to ake.