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Oh man, I can't pass this one up - Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Republican Frontrunner:

Huckabee: Amend Constitution to be in 'God's standards'
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Tuesday January 15, 2008
Raw Story

The United States Constitution never uses the word "God" or makes mention of any religion, drawing its sole authority from "We the People." However, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee thinks it's time to put an end to that.

"I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution," Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. "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."

[Meanwhile, all the hosts at MSNBC could come up with is the tepid...]

Scarborough finally suggested that while he believes "evangelicals should be able to talk politics ... some might find that statement very troubling, that we're going to change the Constitution to be in line with the Bible. And that's all I'm going to say."

[More at link]

ETA: There's some limited context from First Read, here. In particular, he's talking about amendments mandating discrimination against same-sex relationships (and, by the very nature of such things, removing queers from equal protection law) and to eliminate recognition of abortion rights, which would - by the nature of the way they do these things - would almost certainly strike against most forms of contraception as well.

Date: 2008-01-15 09:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elfs.livejournal.com
Let's roll the tape, Bob (http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/1/15/143054/151).

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