Huck: Dem Gays Sure Is Funny People

Real nice. Just how many stereotypes of Christian Conservatives is this guy going to be confirming by the time the oppo research gets done? New in the Boston Globe. Too bad there's a writer's strike. SNL might actually be funny again with this guy on the scene.

Does he sound Presidential to you?

WASHINGTON - Shortly before announcing his White House bid, Mike Huckabee told a gathering of Christian conservatives that he had the toughest position against gay marriage of any Republican candidate. "Unless Moses comes down with two stone tablets from Brokeback Mountain to tell us something different, we need to keep that understanding of marriage," Huckabee said, referring to the movie about two gay cowboys.

The AP provided further details on Huckabee's responses to its 1992 survey, including his belief that allowing gays in the military would be "a disgraceful act of government." Huckabee also expressed his opposition to heterosexual couples living together, calling it "demeaning. . . . I reject it as an alternate lifestyle."

In 1994, Huckabee was quoted in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as saying that he was disappointed that an AIDS prevention class did not stress abstinence and he noted that homosexual acts were illegal under the state's sodomy laws.

Comments

[Al-Ozarka]

The question should be...how many more GOPers are going to run from truth such as Huckabee voiced in your quoted passages?

Homosexuality...regardless of what liberaldom has done to force its acceptance down our throats...is perversion...pure, simple.

And...any idiot can figure out that shacking up is not good for a family environment.

God help us when Republicans decide that God and His Word are meaningless in American society.

Shame, shame, shame!

[Larry Craig]

He said that?? Count him off the Christmas card list.

[jj]

"God help us when Republicans decide that God and His Word are meaningless in American society."

Exactly, Ozarka, but my take here is that we're not dealing with Republicans. I'm frankly not sure what they are, although we've had an influx of Mormon posts. As for the Huckabee statements above, even though I'm not a supporter, I agree 100% with them.

[Fred Beloit]

I'm not a Huck backer, but his opinions as expressed in the post above, though they might have been better expressed, are perfectly reasonable as far as I can see. He is not calling for outlawing pre-marital living together or outlawing homosexuality. He is merely expressing a moral opinion about them. And what is wrong with stressing abstinence in AIDS prevention classes? (All through my later elementary and high school years abstinence was stressed as a way of life until marriage. I ignored all that good preaching of course and got busy getting whatever I could anyway, but that's just another common story. Anyhow, I don't feel I was harmed by being advised about abstinence in any way.)

As for gay marriage, I consider it an oxymoron. Gay couples should be able to make contracts under force of law to bind their relationships should they so desire. I would also finally support, though I would oppose it before hand, our legislatures if they were to democratically change the definition of "marriage". Should "the courts" decide this question? Hell no.

Are these statements of Huck's "presidential"? Is waffling presidential? Some may think so. One of the things I like best about Rudy is that he takes positions and seems to avoid the pandering kind of presidential speech. Now Mitt's presidential in that sense. No thanks. Harry Truman was quite unpresidential when aroused, and many cheered him for it. As when an "elite" critic panned Harry's daughter's singing. Harry wrote a letter, WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT, basically saying he would violently attack this critic if he ever saw him.

"I've just read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. It seems to me that you are a frustrated old man who wishes he could have been successful. When you write such poppycock . . . it shows conclusively that you're off the beam. . . . Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below. . . . "

Presidential, isn't it?

[seekeronos]

"--- Just how many stereotypes of Christian Conservatives is this guy going to be confirming... ---"

Despite my reservations about Huckabee, where he stands upon God's Word, I cannot argue.

With God's Word, that is.

Calling homosexuality (not to mention all other sins of sexual immorality) sin is not a "stereotype". This is a core position of a good many Christians, and not just the fringe "snake handlers" and "holy roller" types.

The unfortunate thing is, that this is even in question shows the sad state our nation is in, as we have lost our moral compass and have begun to spiral until that godless morass that any nation falls into as it forgets to give thanks to God, and its people think only of stuffing their fat, greedy faces full of food and indulging conspicuously consumption while leaving behind those who have been trying their best to make do with what they have and not caring a jot for them.

People, this is a sure sign that like Sodom and Gomorrah, we are heaping unto ourselves a most dreadful store of a Righteous and Holy God's wrath against us, unless we repent of our wickedness in sackcloth, tears, and ashes.

Now do you see what has happened to us with the creeping death of social liberalism in this nation, where God is pushed out of our conscience, and instead of giving Him glory and thanks and praise, and obeying His Words, we have forgotten and forsaken Him?

Do we wonder while our precious little girls become pre-teens who dress up like $50 whores, and our charming young boys embrace thuggish behaviour and do not respect their elders, and learn that gunning down a crowd of people is a fine way to assuage their anger at being marginalized in our society, just like in the video games they play?

Do we wonder why the current generation now raising their children (who in turn are the sons and daughters of the 1980s "latchkey children" ... why they are also as disturbed and beset with a bewildering array of psychological problems?

"The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." (Psalm 9:17, KJV)

WOE unto us, and woe unto the United States, for surely the stench of our sins is rising up to fill the nostrils of our Creator, whose wrath is dreadful, and with whose scepter He shall discipline us with many terrible curses -

Behold, the Word of the Lord:

"------ (Deuteronomy 28:15-26, KJV) ------

15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
26 And thy carcass shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray (frighten) them away.

[Davebo]

"Behold, the Word of the Lord: ------ (Deuteronomy 28:15-26, KJV) ------"

It's truly amazing how people who profess such faith in Christianity can be so clueless regarding it and Judaism's texts.

But hey, I guess your heart's in the right place at least.

[seekeronos]

Well, Dave - you'd be right if you were to point out that this text I highlighted specifically addressed the Israelites at the time they were about to cross over and possess the land.

However, the underlying principle behind this is true for any nation, as touching its relationship with God.