Mike Huckabee, Are you KIDDING me?! Options

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This guy is polling in the 20% range in Iowa. Are you FUCKING kidding me!??!

Mike Huckabee:
Doesn't believe in evolution.
Is an ordained minister who thinks that faith "makes us less judgmental, as we see others with the same frailties we have," yet would champion an effort to amend the constitution for a gay marriage ban.
Against stem cell research.
Support the war in Iraq.
"My faith doesn't influence my decisions, it drives them."

Hey but at least he believes in being environmentally responsible!

(all quotes/opinions taken from his website)

This is fucking ridiculous, and I love how he gets all upset when he gets asked the evolution question. "It's interesting that that question would even be asked for somebody running for President. I'm not planning on writing the curriculum in an 8th grade science book, I'm asking to have the opportunity to become the President of the United States." I think it is an extremely VALID question, it shows how he is 1) a religious zealot 2) is crazy thinking that there is a possibility that God created everything in 6 days.

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[Mommy]

I dont believe in evolution... would any of you say that Im a religious zealot...because I most certainly am not. I never go to church, I dont pray or read the Bible, never preach to others, etc.
I agree with Jonathan... evolution is still a theory and anyone who says that scientific FACT backs it up is sorely misinformed. I dont argue for creation or against evolution, but something inside of me feels that there is more to life than a random formation of quarks into atoms, atoms into molecules, molecules into compounds...etc. I dont care enough to argue.
Im immensely SICK AND FUCKING TIRED of atheistic assholes talking down to Christians for believing differently than them. Insecure maybe? Who knows.

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Im immensely SICK AND FUCKING TIRED of atheistic assholes talking down to Christians for believing differently than them. Insecure maybe? Who knows.

I am going to say that this was directed at me....

I am not talking down to them for believing something differently than me. Notice I never become hostile to anybody who says that god was the "initial mover" and he is the creator behind evolution, yada yada yada, because I believe that if you are religious, that is the most "valid" stance.

I become hostile towards people (who are most likely Christians) who say absurd things like the Earth is 6000 years old, something that has been proven/shown EXTENSIVELY to be false, yet they rehash the same "evidence" which has already been proven to be wrong or use their personal faith as "evidence"... I would put disbelief in evolution in the same category...

I don't see how upset you can be with the above statement...the entire forum condemns the whole Westboro Baptist Church for saying that soldiers death/hurricanes/murder rates are tied to America's acceptance of homosexuality, something that everyone would say is completely and utterly false (and most likely laughable). Here is a a stance that has no scientific justification what so ever, just the church's "faith" in the cause of all these terrible things. Is it not upsetting for you to see them take that position on faith alone? Wouldn't you have a condescending attitude if you were to ever talk to one of them, or would you say "golly shucks, I'm not being open minded enough concerning their different viewpoint, maybe I'm just a little insecure..." I think the answer is obvious...