Huckabee: Gay Marriage Akin to Incest, Polygamy
Mike Huckabee, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, says the effort to allow gays and lesbians to marry is comparable to legalizing incest, polygamy and drug use.
Huckabee On Defining Marriage
Huckabee also told college journalists last week that gay couples should not be permitted to adopt. "Children are not puppies," he said.
Huckabee visited The College of New Jersey in Ewing, N.J., last Wednesday to speak to the Student Government Association. He also was interviewed by a campus news magazine, The Perspective, which published an article on Friday.
Huckabee told the interviewer that not every group's interests deserve to be accommodated, if their lifestyle is outside of what he called "the ideal."
"That would be like saying, well there's there are a lot of people who like to use drugs so let's go ahead and accommodate those who want to use drugs. There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them. There are people who believe in polygamy, should we accommodate them?" he said, according to a transcript of the interview.
The 2008 presidential hopeful and former Arkansas governor also said that deciding which lifestyles should be accommodated and which ones should not creates a slippery slope.
"Why do you get to choose that two men are OK but one man and three women aren't OK?" he asked.
Huckabee added that his goal isn't to tell others how to live, but that the burden of proving that a gay marriage can be successful rests with the activists in favor of changing the law.
"I don't have to prove that marriage is a man and a woman in a relationship for life," he said. "They have to prove that two men can have an equally definable relationship called marriage, and somehow that that can mean the same thing."
Since the magazine published the interview, Huckabee's remarks have attracted considerable attention on the Web.
In a statement Tuesday, Huckabee said that while he believes what people do in their private lives is their business, "I do not believe we should change the traditional definition of marriage." He also said he thought the college magazine was sensationalizing his "well-known and hardly unusual views of same-sex marriage."
In response to a 1992 questionnaire from The Associated Press, Huckabee, then a Senate candidate in Arkansas, spelled out his opposition to homosexuality, saying it was crucial that the country not "legitimize immorality."
"I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle," he wrote, in response to a question about gays in the military.
He also advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, saying it was necessary to confine "carriers of this plague."
As governor, Huckabee supported an Arkansas policy that prevented same-sex couples from serving as foster parents. On gay marriage, he said in an interview, "Marriage has historically never meant anything other than a man and a woman. It has never meant two men, two women, a man and his pet, or a man and a whole herd of pets."
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Huckabee also told college journalists last week that gay couples should not be permitted to adopt. "Children are not puppies," he said.
Huckabee visited The College of New Jersey in Ewing, N.J., last Wednesday to speak to the Student Government Association. He also was interviewed by a campus news magazine, The Perspective, which published an article on Friday.
Huckabee told the interviewer that not every group's interests deserve to be accommodated, if their lifestyle is outside of what he called "the ideal."
"That would be like saying, well there's there are a lot of people who like to use drugs so let's go ahead and accommodate those who want to use drugs. There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them. There are people who believe in polygamy, should we accommodate them?" he said, according to a transcript of the interview.
The 2008 presidential hopeful and former Arkansas governor also said that deciding which lifestyles should be accommodated and which ones should not creates a slippery slope.
"Why do you get to choose that two men are OK but one man and three women aren't OK?" he asked.
Huckabee added that his goal isn't to tell others how to live, but that the burden of proving that a gay marriage can be successful rests with the activists in favor of changing the law.
"I don't have to prove that marriage is a man and a woman in a relationship for life," he said. "They have to prove that two men can have an equally definable relationship called marriage, and somehow that that can mean the same thing."
Since the magazine published the interview, Huckabee's remarks have attracted considerable attention on the Web.
In a statement Tuesday, Huckabee said that while he believes what people do in their private lives is their business, "I do not believe we should change the traditional definition of marriage." He also said he thought the college magazine was sensationalizing his "well-known and hardly unusual views of same-sex marriage."
In response to a 1992 questionnaire from The Associated Press, Huckabee, then a Senate candidate in Arkansas, spelled out his opposition to homosexuality, saying it was crucial that the country not "legitimize immorality."
"I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle," he wrote, in response to a question about gays in the military.
He also advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, saying it was necessary to confine "carriers of this plague."
As governor, Huckabee supported an Arkansas policy that prevented same-sex couples from serving as foster parents. On gay marriage, he said in an interview, "Marriage has historically never meant anything other than a man and a woman. It has never meant two men, two women, a man and his pet, or a man and a whole herd of pets."
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If you believe in equality and if you believe in justice, then Gay Marraige should be legalized. Because honestly, WHO CARES? It doesn't effect straight couples what-so-ever!
is akin to Child molesting.
don't some amish people believe playing a musical instrument is sin?
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Only the flute. (The skin flute, that is.)
Jesus said "Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment." [The Bible, John 7:24] However, homosexual behavior is not a matter of appearance. I think that if homosexual behavior becomes popular enough, humankind will go extinct, due to a reduced birth rate.
I believe homosexual behavior is not at its core a question of how we are made, because people have told me that they have been saved from homosexual behavior by faith in Christ. I have never known anyone whose gender or skin color was changed by faith in Christ!
The Bible mentions this as well in the passage "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate [by perversion], nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God." (The Bible, I Corinthians 6:9-11)
However, I think many people also look to governmental laws for guidance regarding what kinds of behavior are harmful, and I think there should be guidance in laws regarding such matters, including homosexual behavior.
The testimony of many people who have been delivered from homosexual behavior in modern times can be found, for example, at
http://www.exodus-international.org/testimonials_left_HomoSexuality.shtml
or
http://home.messiah.edu/~chase/h/testimon/index.htm .
I respect your intention to live a Christ-like life full of love, compassion, and understanding just as Jesus taught. However, my friend, I believe you are deeply misled and your thoughts are sadly flawed.
The bible is important spiritual tool. It serves as a means of communication by which people on many, apparently different, paths can come to realize the universal spiritual Truth of which we are all unique and wonderful expressions. To use passages from the bible as an excuse for making homosexual behavior an indecent, harmful, "sinful", ugly expression of love is to ignore the deeper, truer and more loving example of Jesus Christ, whose emphasis was not upon human physicality or sexuality, but on the eternal Christ that is the true identity of us all.
For complete spiritual Truth, there is only one biblical voice that can always be relied upon?the voice of Jesus Christ. None of the other writers, however fully they may have understood Jesus' message, completely embodied the Christ energy within them to the extent that Jesus did. If we completely relied on other bible authors for spiritual guidance, we would be disillusioned, confused, and find ourselves living inconsistently to God's true message. Imagine, if in modern times we actually followed the following scriptures:
About adultery, "If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city." Deuteronomy 22:23-24...Tiger Woods would be in trouble...yikes!
What about the one about a woman not being a virgin on her wedding night, "If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her ... and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: And the damsel's father shall say ... these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. ... But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die. Deuteronomy 22:13-21. Hey, talk about really ending the human race!!
How about the one about disobeying parents, "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother ... Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city ... And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die. Deuteronomy 21:18-21. Let's just go ahead and gather all those disobeying children from our schools and give them what they deserve!!
In regards to people who have "been delivered from homosexual behavior", I can only say that the biggest lie we tell is the one we tell ourselves.
Much luck on your spiritual path.
Sexuality is determined by genetic makeup, dude. And since only 10% of the population is genetically homosexual, it is highly unlikely that humankind will go extinct (at least not for that reason). Do you seriously think that homosexual activities will become so in vogue that 90% of the earth population will ignore their sexual identities and drives, and need to reproduce? Please!
I guess the personal relationship that I have with my God does not include hate speech. Jesus "hung out" with all kinds of people. The savior I know does not Judge, only loves.
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Ever read or hear the part where Jesus said "Repent of your sins" ?
So to Mr. Huckabee and anyone else I say to you may God have mercy on your souls. I also urge you to read The Holy Bible. And if that is not good enough for you, read The Declaration of Independence which in the second paragraph says: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
There is nothing abnormal about a person's love for another person no matter what his/her sex or the other person's sex is. God's and Jesus's love is unconditional. So what is abnormal about unconditional love of some one of the same sex?