Huckabee and the Constitution

[jackofallgeeks]

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bothers me. So far as candidates go (or whatever we call them before
they're actually Presidential candidates), I've generally liked Huckabee.
And I imagine no one would be surprised if I told them that my moral and
philosophical principles line up with his fairly well. But that having been
said, I really don't think we should be re-writing the
constitution, "word or the living God" or not. I'm not a strong
proponent of most "separation of Church and State" arguments in general, but
there it was a decided, willful choice on the Founder's part to not mention
God or religion in the Constitution (aside from that bit about not
instituting or persecuting). More general than that I think it's poor form
to "rewrite" the constitution, and though the mechanism of Amendments offers
functionality which is fairly close to that, I don't feel it's the same
thing by any measure and i certainly don't think it should be used to
contradict the main body of our Constitution.

Comments

[starlight1184.livejournal.com]

You could probably guess this, but that makes me physically ill.

[starlight1184.livejournal.com]

To avoid future repercussions that are unnecessary... Matt makes a good point, and that is all very true. I just find the basic concept disturbing (not the amending... the "re-writing" to change the base intent of the constitution).

It's late. I'm incoherent. Apologies.