We have spent so much time focusing on Sarah Palin that we have forgotten that there are other nutty Republicans as well. Behold the Huckabee!

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee warned supporters Tuesday that the $828 billion stimulus package is “anti-religious.”

In an e-mail that was also posted on his blog ahead of the Senate’s passage, Huckabee wrote: “The dust is settling on the ‘bipartisan’ stimulus bill and one thing is clear: It is anti-religious.”

The former Republican presidential candidate pointed to a provision in both the House and Senate versions banning higher education funds in the bill from being used on a “school or department of divinity.”

“You would think the ACLU drafted this bill,” Huckabee said. “For all of the talk about bipartisanship, this Congress is blatantly liberal.”

Now that George W. Bush is out of office there is going to be a lot of crashes and flameouts as the conservative Republicans re-enter the separation of church and state atmosphere.

For these last eight years the Bush administration went out of their way to furiously scrub the line separating church and state so that it was barely discernible. The goal of course was to start teaching Christianity in public schools. They would deny that, just like they denied spying on Americans, torturing suspected enemies, and being giant douchebags, but really who believes these guys anyhow?

It appears that ex-Presidential hopeful Huckabee is suffering a little wooziness after being confronted with an administration that actually respects the wishes of our founding fathers who were desperate to keep the influences of religion from permeating government provided services.

For me what this illustrates is how lucky America is that it had the good sense not to elect Mike Huckabee as President, because obviously he would have felt no compunction to keep his own religious views from being foisted upon the general population.

Of course it is not appropriate for tax payer dollars to be used in a "school or department of divinity", that is exclusionary. Would a Hindu, or Buddhist,be welcome ins such a classroom? Would their religious beliefs be respected? Of course not.

These are not schools, or courses, that simply talk about the fact that Christianity exists. They teach that Christianity is the only path to salvation. How could anybody from an alternative religious background ever feel comfortable in that setting? And any school or classroom that attempts to proselytize cannot expect to be supported with tax dollars. That is un-American.

So contrary to Mike Huckabee's claim, this stimulus package is not "anti-religious", it is just something called "fair". And fairness it seems is not something that Mike Huckabee is terribly comfortable with.

Update: Thanks to Annette, a very astute visitor to the Immoral Minority, I have now learned that Huckabee's entire argument is based on a lie. Here I am trying to at least give Governor Huckabee the benefit of the doubt that his argument is based (at the very least) on fact, and it turns out he is completely full of shit.

I am going to leave this post up since I believe that my point is still valid, but now we can all shake our heads in amazement at just how low these Republicans will go to find fault with Obama's stimulus plan.