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Politics & Legal > How I See Mike Huckabee (Animated)
 

How I See Mike Huckabee (Animated)

If you've been paying attention, I've already asked about the coincidence between Reverend Huckabee's wins on Super Tuesday and the states he won getting ravaged by deadly tornadoes. Therefore, it was no surprise to me this past weekend that Washington state officials quickly called their race for McCain to avoid an earthquake, tidal wave, or some other cataclysmic act of divine retribution. They're now worried what might happen now that Huckabee is challenging the results.

I don't see Reverend Huckabee as the savior of the GOP or America. Quite the contrary, his platform is replete with attempts to discriminate against gays, oppress women by denying them reproductive freedom, and other policies that attempt to conform everyone to his literalist interpretation of scripture.

I know this animation is very heavy handed. I admit that, and it's intentional. I value freedom and liberty and rights for all citizens and object to anyone who would use very strict interpretations of religious texts to rule civil society. These United States are not a religious denomination and I don't want them governed as if they were one. I respect anyone who wants to conform himself or herself to Christ, but I can't respect anyone who wants to conform everyone else to a peculiar interpretation of Christ based on selective texts and extremist literal interpretations.


Is 666 really over the top? My interpretation of that section of Revelation is that anti-Christ involves mixing religion and politics and then forcing others to live according to the stringent dictates stemming from that mixture. You might be a literalist who's read too many "Left Behind" books that have made you wary of a "mark" that will allow you to engage in commerce, while at the same time you blindly support candidates whose positions require other citizens to toe your line. Your "mark" for them is the denial of job opportunities in the form of discrimination, you allow landlords to deny them housing, and you refuse them any legal sanction for their relationships -- all of which is not unlike the "mark of the beast" you're wary of.

posted on Feb 11, 2008 11:11 AM ()

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What specifically do you want to know that I hate about mccain? There is so much? Voting for him I may as well vote clinton.
comment by mmmhollywould on Feb 11, 2008 6:31 PM ()
Huck plays a mean bass...but you have to wonder about a former television evangelist...
comment by strider333 on Feb 11, 2008 5:54 PM ()
Vlad you quote from our distinguished liberal rag. That is so not the truth anyone with a conservative bone in their body avoids that crap.

I would have voted for Huckabee were he going to be the front runner against the hilda-beast. I will not vote for McCain ever and may vote for either the libertarian candidate or Obama should he win but never will i vote for McCain or Hitlery.

this is the worst election ever.

People need to vote with their conscience not with who the media says can win or who ever is the nominee for the party.
comment by mmmhollywould on Feb 11, 2008 2:24 PM ()
Not over the top at all. Huckleberry drives me as batty as McCain. But his wins show what trying to merge corporate and religious interests into one party as a monopoly does to the party when the two extremes separate...Chaos...
comment by ekyprogressive on Feb 11, 2008 1:11 PM ()
The thing people fail to see is the voters in Georgia did not vote Huckabee based on the bible or even his evangelical stance but because he had a chance at winning , was for the fair tax and is a better choice than McCain. With McCain you may as well vote for Hillary.
comment by mmmhollywould on Feb 11, 2008 12:23 PM ()

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