Huckabee: Gay Marriage Would End Civilization

DailyKos:

Forget terrorists. Mike Huckabee has identified a threat right here at home that would result in the downfall of our whole civilization.

GQ: Is the strategy shifting because social conservatives are losing on those core issues? Ten years ago, it would have been unimaginable to have gay marriage even in liberal Massachusetts. Now it's there.

Huckabee: I don't think the issue's about being against gay marriage. It's about being for traditional marriage and articulating the reason that's important. You have to have a basic family structure. There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived. So there is a sense in which, you know, it's one thing to say if people want to live a different way, that's their business. But when you want to redefine what family means or what marriage means, then that's an issue that should require some serious and significant debate in the public square.

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Comments

[Dave24]

Huckabee should take his remarks and shove them up his ignorant, bigoted, unforgivable, IMmoral, self-righteous ass, which is indistinguishable from his mouth. Fucking bigot.

[Ginzaman]

Just shut the f**k up, quit the race and hire the expensive neocon attorney that you know you'll be needing to try and save your ignorant ass.

[BrokenMirror]

And yet, letting convicted rapists roam free to rape and murder is perfectly acceptable.

[Gary47]

"Gay Marriage Would End Civilization". And this would happen because... wait... uhmmm... oh right, when gay people get married straight people stop pro-creating. That's it!

[helonias]

But it will be nicely decorated at the end

[GWHayduke]

Ignoring gay marriage altogether, Huckabee is wrong because the US has already irrevocably altered the definition of marriage. Traditionally, it was a personal, usually religious but occasionally political, act, between two more or less consenting adults. The US altered it into a tax-regulated legal contract, with its meaning debased to whatever the court decrees it to be.

The government shouldn't regulate marriage, period - gay, straight, or otherwise.

[dragonswizardz]

The man's a right-wing idiot! Of course he's way outta line! Granting gays and lesbians the same rights as his conservative "normal" supporters would strengthen America, not weaken her.

[sparkey]

Hucky,do you know what is going to destroy civilization? The one trillion dollar debt that Bush has racked is what is going to destroy civilization. Gay marriage is just scare tactics. I remember what Hucky said last night. I expected him to start spouting the republican chant;"but­,but,but,C­linton". In the interview,he laid the blame for the rapist being released on Clinton getting the judges on the bench. He was trying to say it was Clinton's fault. Just like Bush,Hucky will not take the blame for anything. He'll fit right in.

[AtomicSplash]

Well, gay marriage might end republican civilization. After we legalize gay marriage the conservatives are all going to want to try it out.

After exiting the closet that is

[Cookie]

And a President who would work to release a murderous rapist before his time has been served into society to do it again, is the sign of a thriving civilization?

[AnotherTry]

Accepting gay love is the beginning of the end of war.

[imusintheevening]

Of course any right-minded preacher would be totally against certain selections of two individuals pledging their love to each other, taking vows of monogamy and becoming eligible for an IRS tax deduction and the the right to visit each other in the hospital if they are in intensive care. That is not discrimination, that is equal but separate, that is the answer to Hicklebee's pray of the day.

[pascaljim]

This Reverend Huckabee fellow is a slimy dangerous mo-fo who from the look of his beady eyes and dyed hair would sell his mother, I ask all of you..."Wou­ld you buy a used car from this slick talking suede shoe asshole?

Please advise.

[mockrin2]

Hmmm...A white, heterosexual, Christian male who claims to converse with "God" starts a war in Iraq for his personal pleasure - committing pre-meditated mass murder - and this loon running for President is worried about gay people destroying civilization. Demented Muslims - who hate gay people - fly airplanes into the WTC, and this loon running for President is worried about gay marriage. He only helps prove that the religiously insane will destroy all of us.

[Give Peace A Chance]

Hey Huck, you're sounding like the Taliban.