Huckabee: America Needs To Know Laws ‘Come From God,’ Not Man

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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) said during an appearance Thursday on a Christian television show that he’s thinking about running for President to help the nation know where laws come from: God.

“We cannot survive as a republic if we do not become, once again, a God-centered nation that understands that our laws do not come from man, they come from God,” he said on the show “Life Today.”

When Huckabee added that he wasn’t demanding a theocracy, host James Robison said, “We have a theocracy right now. It’s a secular theocracy.”

“That’s it!” Huckabee said, describing the current political order as “humanistic, secular, atheistic, even antagonistic toward Christian faith.”

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  1. Avatar for marby marby says:

    Gee, I’m surprised God has time to deal with property tax rates, vehicle sticker fees and curfew laws.

  2. The reason Southern Baptists don’t screw standing up? They are afraid the neighbors will look in the window and think that they are dancing.

  3. “History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.”

    -Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.

  4. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    …and elections. Shouldn’t our leaders be appointed by the clergy through God?

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