Faith-Based Amendments

Unbelievable idiocy spews from the mouth of Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee:

I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution. 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 thats what we need to do is amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than trying to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family.

OK, It's pretty clear that the Huckster has no fucking clue what the Constitution is. It has nothing to do with how we treat each other and how we treat the family, it's about how we run the country. It's an instruction manual for our form of representative democracy. Does Huck also think that the manufacturer of his television set should update its owner's manual so it's in God's standards?

But let's humor Huck for a moment. Let's see if we can predict his desired amendments. Judging from his prior statements, it's pretty clear that number 28 would state that an unborn fetus is to be considered a person in all interpretation of the law and that any medical procedure destroying an embryo or fetus is to be treated as a homicide. Number 29 would define marriage as the holy union of one man and one woman. There might even be a number 30 stating that the First Amendment must not be construed in such a way as to prohibit a government office from acknowledging God and Jebus. These amendments are just the tip of the iceberg, however. Let's look at other Biblical principles we could add to the constitution.

For starters, we could make the Ten Commandments into Amendments 31 - 40. Citizens would be required to only worship the Judeo-Christian God. We would also be forbidden to make any "idols" in the shape of anything in the skies, on the earth, or in the water (this would presumably include crucifixes, statues of Jesus, Mary, and the Saints, and those tacky fish on car trunk lids - good riddance to all of them, I say) and forbidden to misuse the name of God. We would be required to keep holy the Sabbath (that's Saturday, by the way) and do no work on that day.

Then it would get more interesting. Here are a few more Biblical principles we could add to the Constitution.

41. No citizen shall boil a baby goat in its mother's milk. (Exodus 34:26 - from the other Ten Commandments)
42. All seafood which does not have fins and scales is abomination. (Leviticus 11:10-12 - so much for the seafood industry)
43. Any citizen who has a judgement against him in a court of law must pay at least twice the amount of the judgement (Matthew 5:40)

Feel free to suggest some others!