I would like to remind the author of the last comment that getting the state out of the business of religious enforcement was designed to avoid the very tyrannies he mentions. Enforcement of any religion via the apparatus of the state replaces the church or temple with the governance of man. By their association, both are rendered incapable of accomplishing their stated responsibilities.

Sticking “Judeo” in front of “Christianity” doesn’t hide the fact that he’s got the narrow worldview of a fundamentalist Christian who has been told that his religion is superior to all others and has bought it every step of the way. I know it very well because I grew up in those teachings. And I’ll fight tooth and nail against being governed by them.

This article is the perfect example of what is wrong with our country right now. Everyone is so busy looking for “gotchas” in what people say to use against them to further their own agenda that they are making no effort to actually try to UNDERSTAND what people are saying.

For just one example, Huckabee clarified his remarks about the Constitution when he was questioned about them later, but NOWHERE, not even in the article you cite did he say anything resembling “the U.S. Constitution [should] be changed to conform to his own religious views”.

I am continually amazed at the ignorance among “intellectuals”. Spin history all you want, but the evidence is still before us even now simply by looking at the political map of the world – the Judeo-Christian principles upon which our country was founded are what made Western civilization not only great, but readily distinguishable from the East.

Respect & dignity for all people, the inalienable rights of the individual “endowed by their Creator”, the Christian virtue of tolerance (which means respect for the free will of others to hold different beliefs rather than the relativism with which so many confuse it) are not found in the East except in places where the seeds were planted from the West.

Sneer at our faith all you want, but secularism in the East hasn’t helped those few countries who embrace it to catch up much – and all it has brought in the West is cultural decay & decadence. Which history tells us is the downfall of all great civilizations…

P.S. Rome fell, but Judeo-Christianity did not.
Napoleon fell, but Judeo-Christianity did not.
Hitler fell, but Judeo-Christianity did not.
Stalin’s USSR fell, but Judeo-Christianity did not.
FWIW, Huckabee is not going away either. Perhaps you should consider immigrating to one of those abundantly prosperous countries where God & religion are carefully kept out of the govt.