01/17/2008
Mike Huckabee Equates Homosexuality to Bestiality
In an interview published today on Belief.net, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee equated homosexuality with polygamy and bestiality.
Talking Points Memo notes: "Huck has just clarified his view that the Constitution should be amended to be brought in line with God's will -- and he directly equated homosexuality with bestiality. Huck, in elaborating on his views that the Constitution should be subjected to Biblical standards, had just wrapped up a discussion of the fact that marriage has meant 'a man and a woman in a relationship for life.' With this context firmly established, this exchange followed:"
BELIEF.NET: Is it your goal to bring the Constitution into strict conformity with the Bible? Some people would consider that a kind of dangerous undertaking, particularly given the variety of biblical interpretations.
HUCKABEE: Well, I don’t think that’s a radical view to say we’re going to affirm marriage. I think the radical view is to say that we’re going to change the definition of marriage so that it can mean two men, two women, a man and three women, a man and a child, a man and animal. Again, once we change the definition, the door is open to change it again. I think the radical position is to make a change in what’s been historic.
(via americablog)
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Sweet! Dan Savage is already taking suggestions:
http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/savage_love_letter_of_the_day_20
Posted by: crispy | Jan 17, 2008 3:09:07 PM
Didn't Huckabee's son hang a dog?
Posted by: homer | Jan 17, 2008 3:18:07 PM
When McCain starts spouting off anti-gay garbage, then I'll start to be alarmed. This is par for the course until a nominee is named. Huckabee is too much of a wingut even for the Republicans. Let 'em rant.
Posted by: jeff | Jan 17, 2008 3:20:31 PM
There's also gay sex in the Bible. The love between David and Jonathan "surpaseth" that of man for woman we are informed on its pages.
Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Jan 17, 2008 3:29:37 PM
I don't think he is running for president any longer. He's on a different track.
Posted by: anon (gmail.com) | Jan 17, 2008 3:46:19 PM
So who's crazier when it comes to religion (or just in general), Huckabee or Tom Cruise? It's a real tossup.
Posted by: Paul R | Jan 17, 2008 4:02:03 PM
You can eat a squirrel cooked in a popcorn machine and he warns American's from the threat of man / dog marriage. These are just some of the things that the Huckabee campaign is based upon.
Posted by: Jerry in RI | Jan 17, 2008 4:41:44 PM
Jeff--have no fear, McCain is taking notes. He's just as slimy.
Posted by: David R. | Jan 17, 2008 4:44:45 PM
Typical Republican...TOTAL IDIOT!!! Please God, don't let this moron, or any other Republican for that matter, get elected. 8 years of the current moron is about all we can take!!!
Posted by: Dr. Christopher Blackwell | Jan 17, 2008 5:18:32 PM
You have totally taken the interview out of context. Did you even read it?
Posted by: csher | Jan 17, 2008 5:57:31 PM
So who's crazier when it comes to religion (or just in general), Huckabee or Tom Cruise? It's a real tossup.
POSTED BY: PAUL R | JAN 17, 2008 4:02:03 PM
That's an easy one. Cruise is crazy but Chuckabee is fucking batshit crazy. I think he makes Bush seem semi sane.
Posted by: patrick nyc | Jan 17, 2008 6:53:40 PM
I don't even know who this is. I mean, I saw him on 'The View' and stuff, and know he's running for Pres and stuff, but that's about it.
Wanna know something scary? I got REALLY drunk the other night and wound up waking up with someone that looked just like him the next day (I guess we had sex) I hope it wasn't him!
God I gotta stop drinking so much!
Posted by: Jordan | Jan 17, 2008 7:35:54 PM
DERRICK IN PHILLY, I like my dog husbands to have black spots along with spots of all other colors. Miscegeny NOW, miscegeny FOREVER! :)
And NO, I never got that T-shirt but I'm still waiting patiently!
Posted by: ZEKE | Jan 17, 2008 8:48:17 PM
SCHER,
how is this out of context? how do you read huckabee's response differntly? contextualize it for us, please.
Posted by: nic | Jan 18, 2008 2:25:26 AM
Historic? Historic like Stonewall? Historic as in empowering police with the ability to harrass and discriminate? (Not that we are free from that now...)
Radical? Radical like separating church and state? Radical like keeping the government out of my bedroom? Pehaps they might try representing the populus as a whole? Not just fucking religious quacks? "Under God" wasn't added to the pledge until 1954.
I hope one of his sons is a big fat (literally) homo.
Fuck this wacko.
Posted by: clint | Jan 18, 2008 2:29:38 AM
If Republicans did not potentially have the nation's power at their fingertips, it would be hysterically laughable to read Fuckabee's wing-nut rantings and foam-mouthed bullshit... the fact that they actually might stand a chance of having 4 more years to run our country into the ground and do their damndest destroy it, like Bush and his cronies, is sickening! And if Fuckabee's particular brand of dreadful religious fundamentalism were part of our future, we are all in very, very deep trouble!
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