Any American who values religious freedom, whether they are Christian or not, ought to be deeply troubled by the plans recently revealed by Mike Huckabee to transform the White House into a center of religious preaching.
When asked if he would establish an official federal government Christian Heritage Week, or hang the Ten Commandments from the Bible in the White House Oval Office, as he did while while he was governor of Arkansas, Huckabee replied, “Don’t know why I wouldn’t.”
Does Mike Huckabee really not know why the President of the United States should not use the power of the federal government to promote one religion over another? Does Mike Huckabee not know about the First Amendment to the Constitution? Does Mike Huckabee not know about the centuries of disaster that religious governments brought to European countries – centuries of disaster that the founders of the United States of America sought to escape?
Does Mike Huckabee not know, or does he just not care?
(Source: MSNBC, December 21, 2007)
