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Mike Huckabee on the Constitution and the "living God"

During a campaign (during the primary presidential campaign) stop in Warren, Michigan, in 2008, Mike Huckabee made it clear that he believes that we need two new amendments to the Constitution. One a human life amendment, and the other an amendment which would define marriage as between a man and a woman only.

I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And that’s what we need to do is to 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.

Glenn Beck & Rep. Steve King on the vote for health care reform

Rep. Steve King (R-IA)  discussed the vote on health care reform with Glenn Beck of Fox News on Beck’s radio show (March 2010). The vote was slated for a Sunday.

They intend to vote on the Sabbath, during Lent, to take away the liberty that we have right from God.

Beck responded with his usual googly-eyed nonsensical gibberish.

You couldn’t have said it better. Here is a group of people that have so perverted our faith and our hope and our charity, that is a — this is an affront to God. And I honestly, I don’t think anybody is like, “yes, and now what we’ll do is we’ll vote on the Sabbath.” But I think it’s absolutely appropriate that these people are trying to put the nail in the coffin on our country on a Sunday — something our founders would have never, ever, ever done. Out of respect for God.

So, you would think that no Republican ever called for a vote on a Sunday. You would be wrong. Via Think Progress:

On Palm Sunday in 2005, the Republican-controlled Senate passed a controversial bill to allow a federal court to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo. The House passed the same bill shortly after midnight on Monday morning.

Via Think Progress.

John Adams on the Jewish Religion

In a letter to François Adriaan van der Kemp, a Dutch minister, in 1809, Adams wrote of his admiration for the tenets of the Jewish religion. His opinion of Christianity is here.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. If I were an atheist of the other sect, who believe or pretend to believe that all is ordered by chance, I should believe that chance had ordered the Jews to preserve and propagate to all mankind the doctrine of a supreme, intelligent, wise, almighty sovereign of the universe, which I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization.

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Source: WikiQuote

John Adams on Christianity

In an 1814 letter to his friend, John Taylor, Adams denigrated Christianity as incapable of real "inquiry".

And ever since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate A FREE INQUIRY? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality, is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly into your face and eyes

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Source:  Letter to John Taylor

Erik Prince's Christian supremacist....

Jeremy Scahill | Democrat

Scahill debated with NBC's political director, Chuck Todd, re the world's most powerful private/mercenary army, Xe, formerly known as 'Blackwater'. The quote is Scahill's "alternate" name for Blackwater.

 Erik Prince's¹ Christian supremacist fighting force to eliminate Muslims and destroy Islam globally, and then they bill taxpayers again for this killing that they're doing and they're not held to the same standard as soldiers.

Watch the video.

¹ Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, is a multi-millionaire fundamentalist Christian from a very wealthy and powerful Michigan Republican family,
     Related: Prince Implicated in Murder

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Quotation: Huffpo Video

Sinclair Lewis on Facism in America

Sinclair Lewis | Democrat 1935

 When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.

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TRANSCRIPT: SARAH PALIN FAREWELL TO ALASKA SPEECH JULY 26 - 2009

Sarah Palin (R) resigns as the Governor of Alaska after serving for less than half her term.

 Click to watch the video.

What an absolutely beautiful day it is, and it is my honor to speak to all Alaskans, to our Alaskan family this last time as your governor. And it is always great to be in Fairbanks. The rugged rugged hardy people that live up here and some of the most patriotic people whom you will ever know live here, and one thing that you are known for is your steadfast support of our military community up here and I thank you for that and thank you United States military for protecting the greatest nation on Earth. Together we stand.

And getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature's finest show. Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun. And then the extremes. In the winter time it's the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn't it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs? And then in the summertime such extreme summertime about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter than just some months ago, than just some months from now, with fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and merciless rivers that are rushing and carving and reminding us that here, Mother Nature wins. It is as throughout all Alaska that big wild good life teeming along the road that is north to the future. That is what we get to see every day. Now what the rest of America gets to see along with us is in this last frontier there is hope and opportunity and there is country pride.

VIDEO: SARAH PALIN FAREWELL TO ALASKA SPEECH JULY 26 - 2009

Sarah Palin (R) resigns as the Governor of Alaska after serving for less than half her term.

Click to read the full transcript of Palin's Farewell Speech.