no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

So there, Huckabee.

I suppose I ought to go on and clarify this, but the language is so clear and easy to understand that to try to elucidate upon it would be an insult to the reader.

The real question, however, is why do people keep pushing to have presidents espouse fundamentalist doctrine? And why do all of the people who want this completely ignore the lessons of Jesus, to turn the other cheek, love your enemy, and not resist evil? Why do the two-faced religious bigots spew anti-immigrant rhetoric on Saturday and pay lip service to the good Samaritan on Sunday? Why do they ignore the heritage of pacifism of many of the colonists who originally established our form of government?