Huckabee: Is Our Civilization Doomed If We Allow Gay Marriage?
What are Mike Huckabee’s chances of making it into the White House? Rather slim I assume, so you cannot blame him for trying to stir up some controversy and get into the Newspapers.
It’s one thing to make headlines but something completely different to make yourself look like a complete idiot, cause idiocy in politics is so what the world needs, forget Bush and his famous made-up words.
Huckabee indicated in a recent interview with GQ that gay marriage would bring the end of civilization upon us. Even though he doesn’t say anything about being clearly against gay marriages… supporting traditional marriage is excluding alternative lifestyles / gay and lesbian marriages.
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.
If what he said was true, we would be extinguished by now. Cultures and societies around the world have in the past and are still rewriting marriage laws and become (more) sympathetic and accepting to all kinds of marriage and family meaning. Also laws and traditions constantly change so how can you dismiss all variations of human relationships in awe of that supposed “perfect” idea of man & woman and that’s supposed and has to be applied to each and every individual alive? Reality looks different. It’s not gay or lesbians getting married that would lead to our demise. One just have to turn on the tv and tune in at prime time to watch some reality show with hardly any morals or value. Or take divorce rates for example, you can hardly blame homosexuals for wrecked marriages.
Huckabee isn’t the first to make such kinds of statements and he won’t be the last. Rather than holding on to one idea of “how it should be”, we should embrace alternatives that work equally well or dare I say, even better for a lot of people.
I believe the truth is, we have to keep on rethinking, changing and reshaping conditions cause it’s not the civilization who does so but the one who doesn’t that will fail in the end.
Sometimes I wonder how we can possibly call ourselves “civilised”, we pick on different cultures and religions, yet some of us won’t under no circumstance acknowledge gay unities.
GQ Interview with Mike Huckabee
Here are some further quotes from Huck that highlight his radical bigotry:
Huckabee said in a statement to the Associated Press that he would have “great regret and anxiety if I thought my comments were hurtful or in any way added to the already incredible pain that families have felt regardless of how they contracted AIDS.”
… 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.”
from: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/12/12/huckabees_views_on_gays_under_greater_scrutiny/
No women in combat anywhere. … Rejected the idea of women in combat “because of my strong traditional view that women should be treated with respect and dignity and not subject to the kinds of abuses that could occur in combat.”
Huckabee offered himself as a social conservative and listed “moral decay” as one of the top problems facing the country.
… he said he wouldn’t retract answers in which he advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased funding for finding a cure and said homosexuality could pose a public health risk — though he said today he might phrase his answers “a little differently.”
Asked about gays in the military, for example, he didn’t just reject the idea but added: “I believe to try to legitimize that which is inherently illegitimate would be a disgraceful act of government. I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural and sinful lifestyle, and we now know it can pose a dangerous public health risk.”
… said living together out of wedlock “is demeaning to the highest expression of human love and commitment. I reject it as an alternate lifestyle, because it robs people of the highest possible relationship one can experience: marriage.”
… opposed passing a law that would give workers time off to care for an ailing family member.
… called the federal welfare system “disgraceful” and said the burden should be shifted from the federal government to local communities.
from: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jQUeFKXF3DiiFHBLK1RXGaAjE6ZwD8TFHOLG0
thanks for the extra input, rx7ward. I think he just outrageous and trying to create as much publicity as possible hoping that it’ll get him into the white house. All he does is point the blame to immigrants, homosexuals and everyone he doesn’t approve of. Would it be down to people like him, we’d all still believe that the world was flat.