Mike Huckabee compares gays to drug users

I knew Mike Huckabee was religious and doesn't believe in evolution, and I knew he didn't support gay marriage, but I didn't realize how intolerant his beliefs were. In an interview with The Perspective, the college of New Jersey's magazine, he compares Homosexuality with Drug use and incest: (from the article)


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 who 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?”

He also had the audacity to claim that Don't Ask, Don't Tell only affects a small group of people and no one in the military is asking for a change:


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 guess the fact that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mullen and Secretary of Defense Gates both support the repeal.  As for a small group, over 13,000 soldiers have been dismissed by this policy.  Not to mention the number of Arabic translators that were dismissed at a time when we're waging a war on terror with people who happen to speak primarily Arabic.

Mike Huckabee wants to be President, and we can only hope he'll keep giving interviews like this to keep that from happening.  I know there are people who agree with him, but his beliefs run counter to reality.  Of course that means he'll probably get decent support from the tea party as they also don't really subscribe to reality either.  So those of us who believe that equality includes all humans will have to make sure to that we get to the polls in greater numbers than these "agents of intolerance".