Governor Huckabush has done it again. In a speech declaring that the U.S. Constitution should be brought in line with Biblical law (stoning adulterers to death? not wearing mixed threads? selling disobedient daughters into slavery?), “I-Like-Mike” has declared, with a straight face, that permitting gay marriage will open the way to legalizing pedophilia, bestiality, and polygamy, (a nice swipe at Mitt Romney and underhanded way to pander to the backwoods evangelicals in the South who are prejudiced against Mormons), . This campaign didn’t work for Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania, but the collective IQ of South Carolina residents is probably quite a bit lower than that of Pennsylvanians. After all, South Carolina is the state where Huckabee’s supporters are promoting the Confederate flag (the symbol of the greatest treason in American history and a symbol comparable to the Swastika, the hammer and sickle, and anything Al-Qaeda might use). South Carolina is also where Huckabee’s supporters are accusing John McCain of collaborating with the North Vietnamese when he was being beaten and tortured in a North Vietnamese prison camp. It is also where Huckabee’s supporters are accusing Senator McCain of fathering a mixed-race daughter (an obvious lie, but one which carries great strength in the first state to secede from the Union in 1861).
I used to think Rudy Giuliani was the most dangerous candidate running for President. No one has profited from 9/11 more than Giuliani with the huge speaking fees he was charging, the huge book royalities he received, and the secret customers of his alleged consulting firm. However, now that he has made himself impotent in this campaign, I must say that Governor Huckabush has become the most dangerous man in the campaign. He can say the most heinous things with a disarming smile and a chuckle and make even the most moderate Southerner comfortable with his outrageously un-American pronouncements. He refuses to disavow the filthy tactics of his supporters, and he panders to the ugliest prejudices of people to gain votes.
If there are any Republicans of conscience in the Confederacy, they MUST stop Huckabush from getting the nomination.
Nice swipe at the Huck. The facts betray your post, though. Read Huckabees quote in its entirety. His reference was to the abortion and marriage issue only, which the bible does speak to–no murder and man marries woman. He did not invoke Old Testament penal law.
But your post does beg the question–why not bestiality or multiple wives? If not a biblical standard, then by what or whose standards may we deny the pedophile or the polygamist his/her desires?
Did I get “moderated?”