It's probably fair to say that Mike Huckabee has had a strange week. On the one hand, he's been surging in the polls, picking up religious right endorsements, and is now considered the frontrunner in the Iowa caucuses. On the other hand, he's been caught lying about the Wayne Dumond scandal, he's proven that has no idea what the National Intelligence Estimate is, he's completed a dramatic flip-flop on immigration policy, and he's presented himself as literally God's own anointed presidential candidate. [Snip]Then there was the questionnaire Huckabee filled out saying that he believed that AIDs patients should be separated adn quaranteed, and added "I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle and we now know it can pose a dangerous public health risk." His comments were made years after it was well known how difficult the transmission of the AIDs viris is.
Mike Huckabee has some very odd beliefs. He rejects modern biology; he's argued publicly that Roe v. Wade may have created an immigration problem; and he's said that if a man and a woman live together outside of marriage, they're engaging in a "demeaning ... alternate lifestyle."
This is not a man most Americans want to see become President.
I wonder if Huckabee is also a Dominionist? He certainly has all the characteristics. But like Bush, he would never say anything like that in public. It's not likely anything we would know until he took office and started making decisions to turn America into a christian theocracy, building on the work Bush has done in the last seven years. You know a Dominionist politician by his actions rather than by his words.
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