"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.
How clever. A merged pop-culture/biblical reference. In reality, the existing ten commands don’t address homosexual behavior or marriage though they do forbid adultery, often interpreted as any sex outside of marriage.
Really, if fundamentalist Christians are oh so concerned with reducing the amount of sex by unmarried couples, perhaps they should consider supporting same-sex marriage. Currently, Massachusetts is the only state where same-sex couples even have the option to be considered a-okay by those pesky stone tablet edicts.
Huckabee also expressed his opposition to heterosexual couples living together, calling it "demeaning. . . . I reject it as an alternate lifestyle."
- Huckabee's views on gays under greater scrutiny
Unfortunately it appears that I, in my deviant heterosexual live-in relationship, will still be damning myself to hell on a regular basis. Oh well.
For those of us unsure of our degree of personal sinfulness, Huckabee appears to have created a helpful continuum of “aberrant behavior.”
As first reported yesterday by David Corn at Mother Jones, Huckabee said the following in a 1998 book he co-wrote called Kids Who Kill:
It is now difficult to keep track of the vast array of publicly endorsed and institutionally supported aberrations—from homosexuality and pedophilia to sadomasochism and necrophilia.
When we asked Carter if Huckabee stood by this quote, he didn't disavow the comment. But he sought to clarify its meaning, denying our suggestion that the quote equated homosexuality and necrophilia:
"He's not equating homosexuality with necrophilia," Carter told us. "He's saying there's a range of aberrant behavior. He considers homosexuality aberrant, but that's at one end of the spectrum. Necrophilia is at the other end."
Carter added: "No way is he saying that homosexuality is like having sex with dead people. That's not it at all."
Asked how one measured what rated where on this spectrum of aberrant behavior, Carter said: "He was talking about aberrant sexual behavior. Sado masochism and necrophilia are on the further end of the spectrum."
- Huckabee Adviser Clarifies Remark About Homosexuality And Necrophilia: They're Both "Aberrant Behavior," But They're At "Opposite Ends Of The Spectrum"
I suppose this means if Huckabee becomes president, I’ll never be permitted to enter into a civil union with my handcuffs. Such a pity.
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That quote from Huckabee that aligns homosexuality with necrophilia sounds very similar to what (former) Senator Santorum said about gay marriage: "If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything." I had to do some digging since he said this back in 2003.
Anyway, that is something to watch out for in Mike Huckabee. While very friendly, humorous and a populist, he is also socially conservative. And lacks a good foundation of foreign affairs.
As we see, he made it as far as his few dollars could take him. It's unfortunate that such a closed off mind made it as far as this. Don't get me wrong, I love an opinion just as much as the next ultra feminist lesbian. Or at least I'm sure that's what I look like to Mr. Huckabee....
It's when those opinions box me in with the same people who molest and rape innocent children that I get angry. Sure, you can say I'm on the "positive" end of that spectrum, but to even be in the same category is sickening to think about. Who I choose to love is between me, my lover and the "God" I choose to acknowledge. And that's only if I choose to acknowledge one.
It should never be a politian's choice or a government's choice who can marry whom. I thought we had a serperation of chrch and state at one time......whatever happened to that? Since when are we relying on tablets and Moses and God to take care of the World's law and order? The last time I checked, we had decided to leave God out of it...
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