Mike Huckabee on gay parents: "Children are not puppies"
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[release]In an interview Wednesday, former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee weighed in on embattled Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, slammed his potential 2012 presidential primary rival Mitt Romney, and reiterated strong opposition to same-sex marriage and the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.’
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Huckabee, a former Baptist preacher, remains in favor of keeping in place ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,’ the policy that requires the military to expel openly gay service members. “I wouldn’t support a repeal if I were commander-in-chief,” he said. “You don’t see foot soldiers out there demanding it. I’m not sure that’s the most important thing we ought to be doing for the military.”
“[‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’] touches an extraordinarily small group of people,” Huckabee continued. He dismissed calls to amend the policy as “primarily a posturing point for political purposes,” and an attempt to “force something on the military that they themselves haven’t pushed that hard.”
“I think we certainly should be very sensitive to the fact that the purpose of the military is not to see if we can create social experiments,” Huckabee warned.
He continues to oppose any government recognition of same-sex relationships. Even civil unions are “not necessary,” Huckabee said. “I think there’s been a real level of being disingenuous on the part of the gay and lesbian community with their goal of civil unions,” he alleged, referring to LGBT activists who first claimed that their goal in several states was to enact civil unions, but subsequently launched efforts to implement full marriage rights.
Huckabee went on to draw parallels between homosexuality and other lifestyles that are considered by some to be morally aberrant. “You don’t go ahead and accommodate every behavioral pattern that is against the ideal,” he said of same-sex marriage. “That would be like saying, well, there are a lot of people who like to use drugs, so let’s go ahead and accommodate those who want to use drugs. There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them. There are people who believe in polygamy, so we should accommodate them.”
He also affirmed support for a law in Arkansas that prohibits same-sex couples from becoming adoptive or foster parents. “I think this is not about trying to create statements for people who want to change the basic fundamental definitions of family,” Huckabee said. “And always we should act in the best interest of the children, not in the seeming interest of the adults.”
“Children are not puppies,” he continued. “This is not a time to see if we can experiment and find out, how does this work?”
In what may come as a surprise for some, Huckabee agreed that an atheist could be fit to serve as president. “I’d rather have an honest atheist than a dishonest religious person,” he said.
“It’s better to have a person who says, ‘Look, I just don’t believe, and that’s where my honest position happens to be,’” he said. “I’m frankly more OK with that than a person who says, ‘Oh, I am very much a Christian. I very much love God.’ And then they live as if they are atheists, as if they have no moral groundings at all. That’s more troubling.”
“I think it’s nice if a person believes in God,” Huckabee said. “I’d hate to think somebody was making decisions who thought that he couldn’t be higher than himself.”[/release]
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Remember, Mike: Children are not puppies.
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Sigmalambda on Mike Huckabee: "Shut the hell up"
Isn't he the one who looks a lot like Richard Nixon?
Dumbass.
Wouldn't this also go for adoption in general
He's a faggot. I mean that in a completely derogatory and non-homophobic way.
[QUOTE=Diet Kane;21314813]Isn't he the one who looks a lot like Richard Nixon?[/QUOTE]
no he's the one that lost a ton of weight
Where does he live....
k guys i made a video on him
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcFWjl3dZss[/media]
what should i add to it
[QUOTE=codenamecueball;21314852]Where does he live....[/QUOTE]
Arkansas.
Children also aren't kittens, telephones or microwaves! There are many things that children are not. Silly man.
I'm actually terribly curious about why he thinks gay parents are not in the best interests for children? What about them does he object to? If it's the lack of a dad or mom, then does he think we need to start taking away kids from single parents? Maybe he thinks they're going to influence the children to be gay? But if that's the way he thinks homosexuality is passed on, then nobody would be gay! I'm so confused...
I really dislike you, Mr. Huckabee.
There are a [I]ton[/I] of heterosexual couples who have kids because they want cute little babies - they think their kids are like puppies.
For Mike to imply that it's an exclusively gay way of thinking only shows just how out-of-touch he is.
[QUOTE=Tarana;21314915]I'm actually terribly curious about why he thinks gay parents are not in the best interests for children? What about them does he object to? If it's the lack of a dad or mom, then does he think we need to start taking away kids from single parents? Maybe he thinks they're going to influence the children to be gay? But if that's the way he thinks homosexuality is passed on, then nobody would be gay! I'm so confused...[/QUOTE]
that's the issue. his beliefs don't make any sense when placed under scrutiny. there are lots and lots of people in the world whose beliefs don't make any sense, but they don't realize this because they are never critical of their own beliefs. they never re-think them
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holy fuck too many striped shirts on fat dudes he needs to hire a ~faSHiOn cOnsUltant~
mike fuckabee should go suck a dee
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lol I just saw this picture
it's like the cover of one of those old christian song records that you find tons of in goodwill
Republicans really don't know when the hell to shut the fuck up do they?
Mike Huckabee and his Country Choir Sing the Classics
edit darn broke my automerge
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Looks like some sort of Jehovah's Witnesses family traveling band. The kind you don't want knocking on your door.
We didn't ask for your opinion Mike. Don't tell us what it is.
[QUOTE=Sigma-Lambda;21315024]Mike Huckabee and his Country Choir Sing the Classics
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You broke mine!
[QUOTE=TheIceman;21315060]You broke mine![/QUOTE]
hey buddy you wanna take this outside?
This guy is a moron, gay people have just as much right to have children. Straight parents deal with kids in a much more brutal fashion, take baby P for example, or even Madelaine McCann
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A bunch of pig Christians.
Which daddy breastfeeds?
Mike huckabee still exists?
[QUOTE=TheIceman;21315053]Looks like some sort of Jehovah's Witnesses family traveling band. The kind you don't want knocking on your door.[/QUOTE]
Erm, no they don't at all.
[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21314760]Huckabee went on to draw parallels between homosexuality and other lifestyles that are considered by some to be morally aberrant. “You don’t go ahead and accommodate every behavioral pattern that is against the ideal,” he said of same-sex marriage. [b]“That would be like saying, well, there are a lot of people who like to use drugs, so let’s go ahead and accommodate those who want to use drugs. There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them. There are people who believe in polygamy, so we should accommodate them.”[/b][/QUOTE]
I think that we should accommodate all of those people. Even incest, as long as it's consensual.
[QUOTE=thisispain;21314829]He's a faggot. I mean that in a completely derogatory and non-homophobic way.[/QUOTE]
So....you mean he's stupid?
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