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From the LA Times:

Wiley S. Drake, a Buena Park pastor and a former national leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, called on his followers to pray for the deaths of two leaders of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Yes, God appeared to Mr. Drake and told him to endorse Presidential Candidate/Baptist Minister/Skip-It enthusiast Mike Huckabee. The pastor did this on church stationery, gaining the attention of Messrs. Conn and Learning of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, who felt that Pastor Drake violated the separation of Church and State . (Basically, since churches are tax-exempt, they are forbidden from officially endorsing any candidate.)

Drake's call for praysassination notwithstanding, let's play Devil's ... er... God's advocate and see why Drake endorsed Mike Huckabee.

"He is a God-fearing man and he'd fear God more than his constituents and more than the Constitution."

Now, I've got no problem with the President listening to God, so long as God votes and pays his taxes. But freely saying you'd elect a President who would not uphold the constitution? Upholding the constitution is all the President's really supposed to do. It's right there in the oath of office!

"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States ... So help me God. "

See? God's even supposed to help the President uphold the Constitution. Which, by the way, he doesn't do, since God's not a US Citizen.