by Diana Tierney

Created on: January 18, 2008   Last Updated: July 02, 2008

Anyone who is elected president of the United States must uphold the basic principles of this country. To say that is prudent to change our founding principles is very dangerous. What must be asked is: Isn't this the very same fundamentalism that we are fighting in the middle east? Or is religious zealotry only wrong if it is another religion?

Let's say that Mr. Huckabee makes it into office, strictly for the sake of argument and to further this argument lets say that what he wants come to pass. This means that we now have a federalized Christian religion which means that the next step would be to revoke the freedom of religion. So does this mean the large number of citizens in the U.S. who don't claim to be Christian would be put to death if they don't convert? I am sure Mr. Huckabee would look up to those that instituted the inquisition. They believed that if a person did not agree with their interpretation of the bible they should be put to death. Also let's not bother with that separation of Church and State anymore. It's so much easier if we all just believe the same thing and it just gets in the way of our new official religion.

Our European counterparts they had another idea that went along with their federalized religion: Divine Rule. Divine Rule meant that God put that leader into place and to question that leader would be to question God himself. Another notion that I am sure will come into play. If we question President Huckabee we would be questioning God. If a person questions God then they must be a heathen and heathens deserve death. Hmmso not only have we now lost our freedom of religion, Separation of church and state we now loose our freedom of speech.

Wow, we don't look much like the United States anymore. This is what can happen when religious zealotry comes into power. This is not just some foreign religious phenomena that we can fear from the comfort of our couch. Religious fundamentalism in any form from any religion is wrong and it is here and present within the United States.

Give me a society where a neighborhood is made up of not only mixed races but mixed religions. Where I can choose to go to whatever religious service whenever, where ever I want. We are a nation made up of various people with various beliefs. To have the kind of society that Mr. Huckabee envisions would be an abomination. Not necessarily to God but to our founding fathers and as Jesus himself said "Pay to Cesar what is Cesar's"

I say to Mike Huckabee give me a society that openly embraces differences of opinion and belief. In the immortal words of Patrick Henry "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!"

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