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Dec. 11th, 2007 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogFrom a news article regarding the up-and-coming republican presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee, we have more evidence that there are a disturbingly large number of us who will vote for the person who give them the best things to be in fear of, and who offers to rescue them from them.
I feel like all the republicans in the race are running on platforms built on varying levels of indulgence in and support of the ignorance of the typical American and perversions of the beautiful core beliefs of Christianity that preach something very far removed indeed from Jesus' message of love, peace, and tolerance.
How can you think these things? I'm not speaking just of Huckabee's opinion here, which at least has some kind of basis in reason, however terribly ill-concieved, but of the positions expressed on any number of civil issues. How can you discriminate, segregate, and hate, yet claim to be so thoroughly rooted in the teachings of someone who showed nothing but love and acceptance to his fellow human beings? Either you are engaged in a Machiavellian power game, which I can at least understand, or you have a level of cognitive dissonance that is simply staggering.
As a Senate candidate in 1992, Huckabee told the AP in a questionnaire that "we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague" if the federal government was going to deal with the spread of the disease effectively. "It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents," he said then.
In an interview on "Fox News Sunday," Huckabee denied that those words were a call to quarantine the AIDS population, although he did not explain how else isolation would be achieved. "I didn't say we should quarantine," he said. The idea was not to "lock people up."
Huckabee acknowledged the prevailing scientific view then, and since, that the virus that causes AIDS is not spread through casual contact, but said that was not certain.
"I still believe this today," Huckabee said Sunday, that "we were acting more out of political correctness" in responding to the AIDS crisis. "I don't run from it, I don't recant it," he said of his position in 1992. Yet he said he would state his view differently in retrospect."
I feel like all the republicans in the race are running on platforms built on varying levels of indulgence in and support of the ignorance of the typical American and perversions of the beautiful core beliefs of Christianity that preach something very far removed indeed from Jesus' message of love, peace, and tolerance.
How can you think these things? I'm not speaking just of Huckabee's opinion here, which at least has some kind of basis in reason, however terribly ill-concieved, but of the positions expressed on any number of civil issues. How can you discriminate, segregate, and hate, yet claim to be so thoroughly rooted in the teachings of someone who showed nothing but love and acceptance to his fellow human beings? Either you are engaged in a Machiavellian power game, which I can at least understand, or you have a level of cognitive dissonance that is simply staggering.
