Mike Huckabee has been all over the tube, making wild, invalid arguments about the Supreme Court. Funny, we didn’t hear “I speak to God” Mike, ranting against the court after the Citizens United decision. The justices who voted to establish the legality of gay marriage are not seven unelected lawyers; they are the judicial top court as established in the constitution. Their job is not to make law, which they did not. Their job is to interpret law, which they did – correctly, this time.
I find that the ability of men like Huckabee, to remain so staunch in the defense of principals of a religion, Protestantism, that was established by men who were not able to live up to the cannons of their original religion, Roman Catholicism, simply because they wanted a divorce, is stunning in its hypocrisy.
So this hypocrite starts babbling about freedom of religion and how Christians must fight back against this law. By doing this he tries to separate the bigotry of anti-black store owners, from the bigotry of anti-gay store owners, both of whom refused service to customers based on their own personal prejudice. Whether the prejudice is based in race hatred or the dubious principals of a faulted religion, it still comes down to the same thing – bigotry.
What Huckabee forgets is that religious freedom, in this country, was established by men who were voting for freedom from, not freedom for, religion. Anything in the Constitution or any of the early writings of our forefathers that deals with religion is there to keep this nation from falling, once again, under the oppression that religion brought to these shores in the sixteen and early seventeen hundreds.
I find it interesting that the religious right, that continually cries out for religious freedom, is the part of the population that is always trying to impose its ideas and points of view on the rest of the people.
While I constantly hear atheists attack religion, I have never heard of them going out among the masses to proselytize for atheism. Hard selling your religious beliefs is a quite popular activity among all religions. It is a process that has screwed up indigenous peoples all over the world. It is true believers that want us all to accept their standards of behavior, not the non-religious.
That’s where this whole debate came from. The religious Right has declared that you cannot get married, because you can’t produce offspring. Okay, what the gay community will do, however, is absorb all the cast off children produced by a straight community that no longer wants or can care for them and that can’t seem to stay married even though they keep screwing.
What’s even more hypocritical is that the only argument the religious Right can make against gay marriage is that it isn’t what is described in the bible. What a farce. This is emphasized by people like Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention, who speak to the bible and scripture as their basis of belief that gay marriage is wrong. But why should any sentient human being rely on someone else’s interpretation of scripture as a guide to how intelligent people live? Moore’s Southern Baptists tell us that scripture says gay marriage is immoral while ISIS’s southern Islamic scripture tells them that its okay to massacre thousands and create slaves in the name of the prophet. Whose scripture is right and whose is nuts? To the non-believer both are bonkers.
And what about the concept of scripture at all? The Baptists, of which Mr. Moore is a significant part, quote the books of the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but these are only four of some 80 books by other authors that could be quoted. Why aren’t the others in vogue any more?
Well, back in the day, the mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine became a Christian and she asked her son to straighten out the muddle of all these people writing about Christ. So Constantine, not a Christian, himself, picked, four bibles out of a hat and that’s what Christians follow today.
So all these Christians who now quote the bible are quoting something that was selected by someone who wasn’t a Christian and who spent at least part of his life killing Christians. I don’t know, seems like a pretty weak base on which to decide anything more important than which flavor to order at Haagen Dazs.