{"id":12861,"date":"2008-09-16T14:37:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T21:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/09\/16\/its-gods-purpose-so-its-my-purpose-so-it-should-be-your-purpose-too.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T15:17:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:17:53","slug":"its_gods_purpose_so_its_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/16\/its_gods_purpose_so_its_m.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s God’s purpose, so it’s my purpose, so it should be your purpose, too!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mike Huckabee seems like a pretty pleasant guy, and I’d invite him over for dinner at the drop of a hat. That said, he should stop screwing around in the affairs, so to speak, of other states.<\/p>\n

God created marriage, Huckabee says : Local News : Ventura County Star<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Changing the definition of marriage would be like making Mona Lisa blond or touching up her smile, former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Sunday morning in Newbury Park.<\/p>\n

The former Arkansas governor and Southern Baptist preacher spoke from the pulpit of Calvary Chapel Thousand Oaks in two services focused on Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. He told about 1,000 people that marriage was created and defined by God, just as the Mona Lisa was created by Leonardo da Vinci. “God doesn’t want me to take my brush and paint over his masterpiece,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

God created mountains. Is Gov. Huckabee against strip mining? Wait, that’s a different discussion.<\/p>\n

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Huckabee, 53, spoke and played his bass guitar at Calvary Chapel in March not long after conceding the Republican nomination to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. He said he returned to address Proposition 8 because its ramifications reach way beyond California.<\/p>\n

[…] Dressed in a dark suit coat and a pink shirt, he said he didn’t come to confront or oppose gay people, rather to urge people to do a better job of explaining what marriage represents.<\/p>\n

“The purpose of marriage is not for you to be happy,” Huckabee said. “The purpose of marriage is so God can teach us how to love, like he loves us.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And, of course, gay couples can’t be taught to love each other. Not really<\/em>. Not the way Mike Huckabee<\/strike> God intends them to, which obviously involves sex stuff … but, wait, that’s not how God loves us (that’s more Zeus than Yahweh, it seems to me) … so obviously I’m confused.<\/p>\n

But does that mean that people should only be allowed to be married if they’re in it to learn how to love? Not for happiness, not for money, not for anything short of love? Should we have them take an oath to that effect before we issue a marriage certificate? Ought we to review past and present marriages to see whether they are about love, and, if not, pass a constitutional amendment invalidating them?<\/p>\n

Do tell us more, Gov. Huckabee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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