Eh, right. Read your history books. The Catholics do not have a long history of “political action”, they have a long history of merging church and state to create corrupt oppressive fascist regimes with tiny aristocracies and huge underclasses. Evangelical and fundamentalist Christians used to be opposed to mixing religion and politics for that very reason, and left the church politicking to the religious left. The entire goal of the religious right has been to get Protestant fundamentalist and evangelical Christians to have the same view of the role of the state and the role of the government that Roman Catholics have always had, starting with Ronald Reagan’s speaking to evangelicals on one night and the Catholic “Reagan Democrats” on the other. Mike Huckabee is merely taking the religious right’s ideology to its logical conclusion.

But hey, if you think that going off and joining with the Roman Catholics is your best route, go right ahead. But when the forced conversions, high taxation, Inquisitions against religious minorities, the seizure of private property for the state church, and continual wars of conquest start, let me know how it works out for you. By email, of course, because I will be long gone from this country before the Vatican takes over.