Let Huckabee and the evangelicals walk

I saw this at HotAir.com yesterday, and I thought I would write a little something about it.

Quoting Mike Huckabee in the Christian Post:

The World’s Greatest Christian Coward – Mike Huckabee

“And it’s not because there’s an anti-homosexual mood, and nobody’s homophobic that I know of,” he continued, “but many of us, and I consider myself included, base our standards not on the latest Washington Post poll, but on an objective standard, not a subjective standard.”…

“If we have subjective standards, that means that we’re willing to move our standards based on the prevailing whims of culture,” he said. “I think politicians have an obligation to be thermostats, not just thermometers. They’re not simply to reflect the temperature of the room, or the culture, as it were. They’re to set the standards for law, for what’s right, for what’s wrong, understanding that not everybody’s going to agree with it, not everybody’s going to accept it.”

You see, this is where I have always had my conflicts with the religious right. The idea that some religious group of some sort controlling the Republican Party burns my boots. I believe that no particular religious group should have no control of any of the two major political parties. Either respect them all, or respect none of them.

This is also where my Christian beliefs and Political positions differ. I happen to believe that America is not a “Christian Nation” Per se. What I am saying is this: Many on the Christian Right, happen to believe that America is a Christian Republic. This is not so. We are a Constitutional Republic, or at least we were founded as one. The United States of America was created as a Nation that respects ALL religions, races, colors and creeds. We have not always lived up to that standard in the past, but we are doing that now, very well.

I will say this — We are supposed to be a Nation that respects all Religions equally, but anyone with half a brain will tell you that America does show deference to a protected minority of a Religion, and I am referring to those who brought The Lord Jesus Christ to a rigged trial, had him crucified and then lied and said that his disciples stole his body. (and no, folks, I am not talking about the Romans either…) The real funny thing is, the supposed descendants of those very people are the ones who run this Country and the Republican party. Funny how all that works.

As for Huckabee, I believe that if he and his Evangelical friends do not believe that the Republican Party suits their agenda, then they should walk. I believe the worst mistake that ever happened in the Republican Party, was that Ronald Reagan and the GOP gave the Christians a place at the table. Because I simply believe that Religion and Politics should never be intertwined. When they do become intertwined, you get things like Sharia Law. Which is a fascist form of Government. I believe, if anything at all, Mike Huckabee and his evangelical friends should be, as the Bible calls it, “about their Father’s business” and not meddling the affairs of this fallen world’s Government.

Furthermore, I believe that when it comes to homosexuality, Huckabee is nothing more than a two-bit coward. Huckabee fails to call homosexuality what it truly is, and that is the sodomite lifestyle. The Bible in the Old and New Testaments forbids it. Mike Huckabee could have taken a stand for the Word of God and for Christian morality, instead, he offered a dishrag of a defense, which made him look like a bigger idiot than normal. To be clear, The Word of God, that being the King James Bible (*); offers the following on the subject of homosexuality:

Old Testament:

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. (Leviticus 18:22 KJV)

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. (Leviticus 20:13 KJV)

New Testament:

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10 KJV)

In a modern version, namely the Amplified Bible:

9 Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality,

10 Nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor greedy graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God.

The people who were responsible for the Amplified Bible were under no illusion as what “Effeminate” meant to them. I am a King James Bible type of Christian, but I commend the makers of the Amplified Bible for pulling no punches on that scripture.

I only wish that people like Mike Huckabee were that bold, when it comes to issues of morality; as they are, about wanting to meddle in the affairs of the Government.  Again, this goes back to being about “The Father’s Business.” In this department, Mike Huckabee and the Evangelical Christian World as a whole, is failing badly and America is now reaping the harvest of bad seed, sown many, many years ago.

* = There are some of you that might disagree with me on my position on the King James Bible; and that is quite alright, stupidity is not illegal. 😉 Click here to see my position on the King James Bible. Also too, please know, that I am not a fan of this man here, this is a PDF link. (Please Note: The link is not my site, but one of someone whom I very much respect.)