So What if Hour-Long Sermons Replace News Conferences?
Q: I thought this guy Huckabee looked like a pretty interesting presidential candidate — at least for a Republican. Then I discovered he is a Baptist minister. Should I be just scared, or very, very scared?
Guru: Calm down now and take a deep breath. Huckabee is just a Baptist minister. Nothing more, nothing less. Well, not nothing less. He did serve as governor of Arkansas, so that must count for something, though Little Rock is not much of a city and Arkansas is not much of a state, if you get right down to it.
So, the Baptist minister-president would open his news conferences 
with a five-minute prayer, followed by a reading from the Bible, and then a 30-minute fire and brimstone sermon. But believe me, lots of those White House reporters could benefit from hearing a Baptist minister’s prayer and sermon now and then. Put a little stiffener in their spines, give their step a more Godly bounce.
In addition, reading from the Scriptures would introduce those newsies to good writing, which a lot of them could benefit from. Take it from me. I read what some of them write before their editors get their hands on it. A lot of that raw copy ain’t pretty. No sir! (Note to newsies: Subjects usually come before verbs.)
Sure, there would be less time for the newsies to ask their obnoxious, nettlesome questions. But look on the bright side: you would have to listen to fewer long-winded rambling presidential answers that dodge the question and spin everything off into a self-serving sound bite on some other issue entirely.
Yes, a Baptist minister as president would probably deny various scientific truths, but how is that different from the guy in the White House now? What does it matter if the president denies we descended from apes? Does that effect the health insurance mess? So what if the president thinks global warming is God’s will? Suck it up and top off the SUV’s gas tank just to be safe.
Would it really matter in the broad scheme of things if the president was convinced the Grand Canyon was created 20,000 years or so ago? Listen, there are far worse fantasies firmly implanted in the Oval Office at this very minute, and they are being used as the justification for all kinds of cock-eyed decisions.