Can someone explain Mike Hackabee to me? (Page 3)

Sorry, I don't understand how allowing freedom of religion is intolerant. Having a government attempting to legislate a certain religion's morality violates that freedom.

 You're talking about 1992-2000 I would assume.

You are spot on Mark, good post!

I can see that Murder is wrong without religion.

My State Government passed a law to have prayer in school.  It is being fought in the court right now.  Though this year my child has to pray/moment of silence everyday before classes start.

Sooooooo.....ah nevermind

Most people make emotional buying decisions.

But Romney meets those criteria, too.

Plus...there's has been a big governmental effort to stop teaching evolution, and to include creation-based curriculum in science classes. If that's not legislation based on religion, then I don't know what is.

I just read all three pages and here's what I get out of this thread - Huck is a regular guy and lots of talk about Christians.  What does he stand for?  Why should we vote for this guy?  Can someone answer that?

And before we start putting this guy in the White House, Karl Rove had a great quote that went something like..."Sure Iowa is important, but the total number of voters in the caucus was about the same as voters in Witchita, Kansas...blah, blah,"  C'mon guys, this is a fraction of the US population.

I'm personally embarassed that this is the caliber of people we have running for office, Dems or Repubs.  The one thing we talk about as a country is our hatred for these religious fanatics that run other countries...well, I guess we are joining the club.

No, it was the whole "I feel like I could do a line or two with the guy" approach to picking a president.

IMHO I believe that evolution and it's government mandate of it's teaching is itself legislating religion.  At the root of evolution is the belief that there is no god and hence the big bang, etc which is an opinion about god making it a form of religion.  Yes I know that some forms of evolution belief include a god and the earths origin but that's not what I'm talking about so save those posts.  Your comment that there's an effort to stop teaching evolution and to include creation-based curriculum is a contradictory statement.  Is the movement to ban evolution teaching or to include creation-based curriculum because those are not one in the same.  Besides, isn't it intolerant to support the model that has been in existance for decades of evolution being taught in school as the way things are when a vast portion of the population support creationism.  If you lefties are tolerant, why wouldn't you support teaching both points of view?

This is extremely inaccurate in it's depiction of both evolution and the beliefs of many devout people. I invite you to learn about the position of the Catholic Church on evolution for starters.

Thank you, to the last two points. Trying to pass laws to ban abortion, stem cell research and shooting down laws trying to legalize gay marriage, all because "the Bible says it's wrong"; do I need to continue? And this has nothing to do with my stance or anyone's stance on these issues. Point is. My neighbor does not necessarily have the same religious beliefs and in this country, that is okay. So who am I or anyone else to try to impose my religious mores on him/her through law? Sorry, but that's total crap. Theocracies do not work - take a look at other parts of the world. And this country is slowly creeping towards that end - ironic for a country that was originally settled by those escaping religious persecution...

And the extraordinary leader is..........................................................???

Not one of those people runnning from either party has proven extraordinary as a leader.

Evolution is not a "religious" belief any more than Shakespeare, or basketball or math. And I don't recall any of my science teachers starting out the conversation with "There is NO God, class, and that's why we evolved from monkeys". Besides, if you don't want your kids to learn about evolution, send them to a private Christian school. No one is forcing you to send your kids to public school. Once again, the beauty of a free country.

Mike Mike Mike... don't you read the biological research?  Every study has as a standard disclaimer, "Evolution necessarily mandates the denial of any divine being.  Read no further if you profess any religious beliefs, moron."

Brian 

No offense, but the Catholic Church's idea of "ensoulment" is largely debated too.  I think he is correct in the perception of evolution as being godless.  In all honesty, I think the bible is pretty clear that God created humans in His likeness, not in the likeness of an ameoba or ape. Just my $.02.