Messenger Boy

4/18/2010

In a recent interview, Arkansas Governor and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee pulls out the stops to equate homosexuality with incest, polygamy, beastiality, and plain old childishness. Given that he was speaking with a college reporter, I think Huckabee must have woken that morning searching for some blood pressure pills and a bulletproof vest. But he did well holding up his conservative views for the listening co-eds. Students at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), were also prepared for anything but a boring leftie interview, dishing out one hotplate-to-the-face question after another.

Huckabee’s aired his thoughts on gay marriage, which take a typically conservative route of equating two men or two women marrying to polygamy. Further exposing a right-wing fear with any change whatsoever, more than the real issue of allowing two people who love each other being able to call themselves “married” instead of “civil unioned” if they’d like.

Gay adoption? Outlook not so good, considering that even straight couples cannot successfully meet Huckabee’s rigorous ideals of raising children. About a recent passing of Arkansas’ ban on gay adoption, Mike Huckabee was an unwavering supporter.

“And always we should act in the best interest of the children, not in the seeming interest of the adults. Children are not puppies. This is not a time to see if we can experiment and find out how does this work?”

TCNJ reporter: So, preferable to keep them in, what, the foster system?

“No, preferable to have men and women who actually give consideration to their sexual activities that lead to pregnancy, and that they act responsibly…like grownups. In a perfect world, in an ideal world, people would recognize that having a child is a heavy duty responsibility, and you engage into a relationship with somebody sexually as a permanent commitment to that person. You don’t use that person as a sexual toy and toss them away, leaving them with the burdens of a child. That’s not mature sexuality; that’s immature, selfish lifestyle.”

True, Huckabee, people should act responsibly in relationships and during baby-making acts, but that doesn’t really solve the predicament about what to do with those children stuck in foster care who just want a place to call home but can’t broaden their options of that simple wish, because the family who wants to adopt is gay. We don’t live in an ideal world—so now what, Huckabee?

Hear Mike Huckabee’s response to TCNJ’s publishing of his statements and hear audio of the original interview, with subtitles, here: http://bit.ly/9yFVWw

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