Is this guy serious?
It makes sense that this guy is the front-runner in Iowa and struggling in New Hampshire, an obviously more secular state. With ads like this it's hard to believe it's endorsed by his campaign. With all the fallout over Romney's comment at College Station that "freedom requires religion" and Russert's subsequent grilling, it is surprising that Huck let this thing leave the producer's head. It's a sad day for a country that professes to have no litmus test for office, when an ad like this can be run by a presidential campaign. Actually, it's downright scary. I may not fit with a lot of conservatives on the ideas of church and state, but there is no place for this in presidential politics. I worry more about what impact Huckabee may have on the White House than the impact this ad will have on the Republican Primary. Church and state have their respective spheres of influence, as Romney reminded Russert on Sunday, but I wonder if Huckabee sees the importance of keeping the two separate. It is important that they be separate not only for the sake of minority rights, which poses a significant case in and of itself, but for the sake of religion itself. If we allow our religious beliefs or lack thereof to be drudged through the secularity of politics and government, both will be irreversibly altered for the worse. We will then have a litmus test for public office, and unpopular church doctrines will be altered so as not to offend. Is this really what we want?
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