Wingnut Lunatics: Don Feder and Mike Huckabee

It is almost frightening how untethered the far right Christianists are becoming. First there's Don Feder posting another anti-gay screed on WingNutDaily alleging that civilization will be surrendered if same sex couples are allowed to marry nationwide. This lunacy is matched by Mike Huckabee who wants to turn the United States back over to God and Jesus. Both Feder and Huckabee are little better than Demagogues and Huckabee obviously cares nothing for the U.S. Constitution which bars the government from establishing an official state religion. Both men in effect want nothing less than a Christianist theocracy. It is downright bizarre that Huckabee can continue to be viewed as a serious contender amongst many within the GOP base (who claim the worship the Constitution almost as much as the Bible) given his contempt for constitutional government. First, some of Feder's verbal diarrhea (NOTE: in the article he turns the estimated 87,000 attendees at Glenn Beck's whitestop into 300,000):
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Memo to conservative defeatists: Surrender on gay marriage is surrender on marriage – which is surrender on the family and, ultimately, surrender on civilization.
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But while America turns back to God, Beck turns his back on God's law. Hey, that's catchy!

A guest on the "O'Reilly Factor" in early August, Beck was asked, "Do you believe that gay marriage is a threat to the country in any way?" Answer: "No I don't. Will gays come and get us?" Apparently, this jocularity was meant to belittle the bumpkins who oppose turning marriage into a free-form institution.
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Beck then quoted his hero, Thomas Jefferson (who thought the French Revolution was groovy): "If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket what difference is it to me?" Apparently, demolishing the institution of marriage, and undermining the family, should be matters of supreme indifference to those fighting to save America from the clutches of Obamaism.
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Beck is one of a growing number of conservative opinion makers who are either agnostic on the issue or have decided to earn tolerance-points with the establishment by backing here-come-the-grooms. They include The View's Elizabeth Hasselbeck. ("I actually support gay marriage.") and Ross Douthat, poodle conservative of the New York Times op-ed page, whose hair-splitting here makes the late William F. Buckley Jr. sound coherent. Then there's Ann Coulter who's speaking at Homocon, . . . and the Republican congressional leaders who are falling all over themselves to attend a Sept. 22, D.C. fundraiser for the Log Cabin Republicans.
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This unwillingness to fight for the family, on which civilization depends, is another sign of the failure of modern conservatism. The right can win a thousand battles against big government and lose the war for America's future, if it surrenders on marriage and the family.
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Offering competing models, socially sanctioned, undermines heterosexual marriage. Two men engaged in what used to be described as unnatural acts, become the legal/moral equivalent of a man and woman (husband and wife), joined by faith and tradition, doing society's essential work of childbearing and child-rearing.
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Homosexual activists (among the most driven ideologues on the planet) will insist that all churches perform same-sex ceremonies – and push for withdrawal of charitable tax status of those that refuse. Hate-crime laws will be applied to the ministers and priests who preach Leviticus or Romans 1:26-27. In Europe and Canada, clerics have been hauled before human-rights tribunals for defending their faith from the pulpit.
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Unfortunately, many conservative intellectuals have lost sight of a crucial fact: American exceptionalism rests on three pillars – faith, family and freedom. Remove any one, and the entire structure collapses.
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Funny thing - I didn't realize that I am a "driven idealogue." I would also note that Massachusetts where same sex marriage has been legal the longest has the lowest divorce rate. But then. objective facts are meaningless to folks like Feder. It's also noteworthy that Feder continues to push the myth of American exceptionalism. Somehow, I don't think God judges any of us based upon our nationality. Our prejudice and bigotry, yes. Nationality or sexual orientation, not at all.
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As if Feder's bile isn't bad enough, we have Mike Huckabee fraternizing with Lou Engle - who supports the execution of gays in Uganda - making it clear that he wants to turn the USA into a Christianist theocracy. Here are highlights from Huffington Post on Huckabee's lastest bullshit:
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Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee wants to turn the United States back over to God and Jesus. Huckabee actually said this in a just released 60 second commercial for Lou Engle's "The Call." In the spot Huckabee says, "Fast and pray and turn this nation back to God, as Jesus is our only hope."
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Governor Huckabee should know that the Constitution is very clear about the separation of Church and State. Take a look at the commercial; it's unbelievable: