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Like I’ve said before, I want to like Mike Huckabee, I really do. He’s a personable guy who has a sense of humor about himself, which is sorely lacking politics. Most of his religious social views mix with mine, as far as helping those that need it. While he’s against gay marriage, I don’t exactly fit in with Democrats on elective abortion.

But every time he opens his mouth, he makes me shudder. First, it was the interview with the NY Times where he spread lies about the Mormon faith. Now, he wants to amend the Constitution to fit his biblical world view?

This is a huge issue that I have with many in my church. They want the clock rolled back to the golden times of yesteryear where God ruled the country rather than men. Of course, it’s total bunk but a lot of people trace the downfall of American civilization to the date when prayer was taken out of school.

I agree with the Exurban chaps (that’s a first) that separation of church and state is there to protect the church rather than the other way ’round. Take a quick glance through history what happens when church and state are one (not only the current Islamic theocracies, but look 20 years ago at Latin America and many times in Europe over the last couple of milennia). I can’t fathom wanting to mix the two any more than we currently do, and I certainly don’t want to amend the Constitution to my particular Biblical worldview.

All this comes as the NY Times runs an article on how Huckabee is splitting younger Evangelicals from the old guard because of his support of environmentalism and other “liberal” issues. It reminds me of my favorite recent piece of satire, McSweeney’s Letter from Pat Robertson on the Presidential candidacy of Jesus. However, as long as Huckabee insists on merging church and state in this way there’s no way I can support him.

Maybe we can mix Huckabee and Obama and get the perfect candidate? A little of Huckabee’s message and Obama’s respect for the limits of faith and government? Please?