As the chaotic and unpredictable GOP presidential primary process grinds on, there is one thing we know for certain. Gov Huckabee is unapologetic about his incendiary blend of politics and religious zealotry. Just one week after extolling New Hampshire Congregants to be “soldiers for Christ” in “God’s Army,” the former Arkansas governor and Baptist minister told a cheering Michigan gathering that Americans must “amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards.”

Huckabee’s latest faith-based salvo should come as no surprise. Huckabee, after all, refused to backtrack from his 1998 statement proclaiming his mission in politics was to “take this nation back for Christ.” And to be sure, tapping into the support of evangelical voters is central to his strategy in the upcoming Michigan and South Carolina primaries.But in Warren, Michigan on Monday, Huckabee declared his personal crusade to amend the Constitution by copying and pasting from the Bible:

“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.”

In case there was any remaining doubt, that astounding statement eviscerated Huckabee’s pretense of upholding the separation of church and state. In December, Governor Huckabee offered this charade on Meet the Press, words which obviously are no longer operative:

“The key issue of real faith is that it never can be forced on someone. And never would I want to use the government institutions to impose mine or anybody else’s faith or to restrict.”

As it turns out, using the institutions of government to impose his faith is exactly what Mike Huckabee has in mind.

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