Holy Huckabee

Even my husband, who is fairly oblivious (compared to me), felt compelled to comment on Huckabee's startling assertion. This blogpost came from Hullabaloo, which takes a pretty hard line against the Huckster.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/

. . . .here's what Michael Huckabee, GOP frontrunner, said two days ago:

'I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution,' Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. 'But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that's what we need to do -- to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view.'

Looks like Huckabee opened the kimono, as they used to say in Silicon Valley. And there, in all his naked repulsiveness, stands a ruthless, ignorant, far right theocrat.

No doubt there are many causes for our scientific illiteracy - American ignorance has many parents. But given the enthusiasm and ruthlessness with which christianists like Huckabee have proactively undermined education, surely anti-science intimidation by religious fanatics represents one very significant portion of the problem.

Here's more from the same site, part of an interesting story from a former Texas science teacher:

God forbid that we should teach knowledge over “beliefs.” No wonder our politicians keep repeating the mantra “I believe …this and I believe …that” The “belief” word demands free reign to twist reality without being questioned. It is a true tragedy when believing trumps thinking, especially in our schools.

Nancy Hentschel
Sugar Land

And this:

When Willie Geist reported Huckabee's opinion on MSNBC's Morning Joe, he noted that if "someone without his charm," said that, "he'd be dismissed as a crackpot, but he's Mike Huckabee and he's bascially the front-runner."