BernieHund: The Political Watchdog

Once again the evangelicals are rising up from the ashes demanding a holier than thou candidate, one they can support.  Mike Huckabee is about as close as they are going to get this year.

First of all, I have to say that I’m sick and tired of the (mostly white) evangelicals acting as if they own “soul” rights to God and Jesus Christ.  (Please excuse the pun.)  These same evangelicals are so filled with hate, judgment and Biblical misrepresentation that it would make a good Christian consider atheism as a positive alternative. 

I spent fourteen years in parochial school.  The Bible was required reading at least four complete times before my graduation.  The Jesus that I read about and studied didn’t have hate in his heart.  He would not have discriminated against anyone.  “Do unto others…”

As I think about Mike Huckabee becoming the #2 name on the Republican ticket, I shudder.  John McCain has good genes, as evidenced by his mother.  Yet, the fact remains his mother’s tenure is no guarantee of John McCain’s life span or mental acuity.  We can all remember how close we came with Reagan.  And, with Mike Huckabee as the default guy the country could find itself divided possibly beyond repair.

As surely as Huckabee is an evangelical, I say beware.  This is a man who wants to add an amendment to our Constitution to prevent gays from marrying one another.  Huckabee is a man who used “gay” and “pedophile” in the same sentence and tried to show a correlation between the two.  He is a man who wanted to segregate HIV positive patients and aids patients just as lepers were segregated in the Old Testatment. 

Huckabee is the man who governed a state that tried (and failed, Amen!) to pass a law that would not only have prohibited the teaching of evolution, but would have prevented carbon-dating of any fossils because carbon-dating could indicate life before “the creation.”  Under consideration was that zoos could not display dinosauers or printed material that indicated life before some 6,000 years ago.

We have endured an anti-science President for the past seven years.  Our educational system has suffered because of this.  We don’t need another evangelical in office who literally believes the world was created 6000 years ago.

Huckabee is a man who is “pro-life” until birth and pro death penalty after birth.  It seems to me that pro-life should go the distance.  Pro-life isn’t just a right to birth issue.  It’s a right to life issue, isn’t it?

He is a man who excludes the masses, speaking directly to the evangelicals by beginning speeches with Biblical text.  But, if Mike Huckabee is an evangelical Baptist preacher how can he selectively quote from Bible texts and selectively believe?  This is the man who wants to send over 12 million illegal immigrants home and forgets “if you see a stranger among you, treat him as one of your own” from Leviticus.  Huckabee is a man who wants to re-create our country in his (and the evangelical) image of religion and God.

As I have written time and time again, whatever these evangelicals choose to believe is there business.  I have no problem with them believing whatever it is that satisfies their needs.  I do have a problem when they preach their ethics and so-called high moral ground as if they are Biblical in nature.  They aren’t.  The evangelicals perhaps should recognize that there are those of us who are as spiritual, far more tolerant, and love a gentler and kinder Jesus.   

Perhaps Jonathan Swift was right:

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.