• Mike Huckabee on gay parents: "Children are not puppies"
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[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21314760][url]http://tcnjperspective.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/huckabee-rips-steele-romney-lgbt-activists-4/[/url] [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.’ :words: 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] :doh: Remember, Mike: Children are not puppies. [IMG]http://imgur.com/WVDMF.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Gee, thanks OP for putting your little .gif in the article quote. I'm being sarcastic, and you should be very ashamed of yourself. Let people make their own decisions and stop trying to put your little smiley faces in people's news articles damnit!
When the current generation of teenagers/children is in government, things will hopefully be different.
What's up with that family pic?
[QUOTE=NeoTurtle;21343391]When the current generation of teenagers/children is in government, things will hopefully be different.[/QUOTE] We can only hope. Free internet for everyone? =D
[QUOTE=Proj3ct_ZeRo;21337951]The problem is children need the caring nurturing side of a woman, and the strong authoritive side of a man, its just nature. 2 men or 2 women could (and I stress COULD there hasnt been any studies as of yet) have a negative impact on discerning roles, I am a very modern person and not to sound old fashioned but its just science, we are not made for this its our human phsyche that creates it. But I have no problem with them getting married and the like, but adopting children.. I have to say I do not think the outcome will be a good one. Only time will tell and I will happily change my mind if the children in these situations turn out ok.[/QUOTE] So are you advocating that children of single parents be removed from their homes and placed with foster families?
[QUOTE=Zeke129;21344579]So are you advocating that children of single parents be removed from their homes and placed with foster families?[/QUOTE] It's just about impossible for a single person to adopt a child. He said nothing about taking children away form single parents.
[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21314760] [IMG]http://imgur.com/WVDMF.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] The collective IQ of this photo is about 30, and most of it is in that woman's hands. [editline]08:51PM[/editline] [QUOTE=carcarcargo;21315780]Erm, no they don't at all.[/QUOTE] lol, carcarcargo defending his crazy cult of a religion. [editline]08:56PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Wakka;21318418] [URL="http://www.facepunch.com/#"]View YouTUBE video[/URL] [URL="http://www.youtube.com/v/b2ZO7I8oppw&hl=en&rel=0&autoplay=1&fs=1&hd=1"][/URL] [URL]http://youtube.com/watch?v=b2ZO7I8oppw[/URL] [editline]07:19PM[/editline] I couldn't never understand why two men would like to have love (sex) with each other. Never clicked in my head. Sticking things into places where they're not supposed to and getting shit all over the place is repulsive.[/QUOTE] wait, Wakka is straight? [editline]08:58PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Wakka;21318616]I read somewhere that there is no such gene. For there to be a gene, there would have to be an incentive for the body to evolve into doing such a thing. There is absolutely no benefit to one's survival and procreation (from an evolutionary standpoint). Pretty sure that if people evolved, the penis wasn't formed to go into the rectal cavity of another person.[/QUOTE] uh, gay's are natures population control [editline]08:58PM[/editline] i read it somewhere, must be true [editline]08:59PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Wakka;21318736]I'm pretty sure that nipples tailbones and appendix's aren't pointless stupid shit. All three of those still have important physiological functions. :colbert:[/QUOTE] what do nipples and tailbones accomplish? [editline]09:01PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Wakka;21319030]It's not a g-spot you incompetent fool. It's a prostate gland with nerve receptors that are responding to stimuli.[/QUOTE] YOu have no idea how good it feels [editline]09:07PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Sewer Boy;21330760]Great idea! Let's just shoot anyone with post-conventional moral reasoning. on a more relevant note, I would have to agree with the ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ policy in the military. If you're gay and in the army, just shut up and do your job, it's as simple as that. Nobody needs to know your sexual orientation[/QUOTE] you missed the don't ask part of it which is breached. You're acting like gays who are in the military are going to preach it. [editline]09:08PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Laserbeams;21331317]Why the hell isn't Facepunch homophobic anymore ? It's like everyone suddenly turned gay at once :ohdear:[/QUOTE] Because Homophobia is horrible? [editline]09:09PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Sewer Boy;21332584] Purposely looking for a way to kick someone out is wrong, but I can't see that happening unless the soldier is a problem to begin with.[/QUOTE] Or... you know, the people doing it are sneaky and opinionated assholes?
[QUOTE=Splurgy;21314896]Children also aren't kittens, telephones or microwaves! There are many things that children are not. Silly man.[/QUOTE] Children are not children
[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] You just solved my band name problem. The Huckabee Family Chorus.
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