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According to the Associated Press, Mike Huckabee had this to say while in Michigan:

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 try to change God’s standards.

This raises a flag in the minds of many people, including mine. (By the way, I like Huckabee and have not yet firmly committed to any particular candidate.) I would not necessarily disagree with any of the above comments if properly framed. I am not, however, in favor of amending the Constitution to match everything in Scripture. On the other hand, I am in favor of the the Constitution squaring with God’s natural law and eternal principles which can be known by all men.

John Mark Reynolds has a nice post, here, expanding on these thoughts. In it he explains:

A Constitution may agree with Sacred Scripture, but it should not impose that specific revelation on the commonwealth. This takes matters of personal faith and the Church into the public square where they do not belong. These issues may be knowledge of a sort, the doctrine of the trinity is true, but it is not knowledge based on argument to which non-Christians have access.

Huckabee should press for the Constitution to conform to the law of Nature and of Nature’s God, but he should not press for the Constitution to enshrine any law that requires acceptance of any religious claim more specific than that.