Mike Huckabee loves you... unless you're gay
While the President of the United States mulls having the Supreme Court adopt a lesbian, Mike Huckabee has been sure to reaffirm that he does not believe that a lesbian should raise kids.
Right after relaying the message that tolerating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people is “like saying, well, 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, so we should accommodate them,” The Huck goes on to blast same-sex couples who want to raise kids:
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?” (h/t ajc)
As if gay-led households is a brand new concept and gays never thought about raising children until recently. In fact, gays and lesbians have been raising kids since the dawn of time, same-sex couples have been raising kids fairly openly for over a half-century, and generations have been born and raised since mainstream science first asserted that being raised by same-sex parents is no more or less detrimental to a child than being raised by any old family. This isn’t an experiment, we know–the jury ruled long ago on this.
Heterosexual adoptive parents aren’t always better, after all. For example:
So heteros are so perfect, ehh?
Of course, being as Mike Huckabee clearly has no grounding in reality, it should be no shock to anyone that he’s trying to keep gays out of the military too. Pssssst–they’re already here!
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Extremely offensive. How can people take this guy seriously?
Unfit heterosexual parents and straight people who choose not to raise their children are the reason that these orphans need to be adopted in the first place.
There are many different kinds of families. Why must there be such narrow definitions for what makes up a family? Huckabee’s is just finding an excuse to extend bigotry and ignorance. There are plenty of abusive and neglectful heterosexual parents who fall into “the basic fundamental definitions of family.” It doesn’t mean that it’s a good environment for children. If Huckabee really cared about the best interests of the children, then he would be advocating for same-sex parents to be able to foster and adopt children. This would create more stable homes for them to be with loving, capable parents.
I wonder if Huckabee knows that there’s another homophobic leader with similar views and they both share the letter “H” as the first letter of their last names. Hitler didn’t allow gays and lesbians to adopt children either.
With ya totally. I despise this guy.
I am so tired of idiots like this leading our country. He is a bigot that is only spreading hatred against the LGBT community. He is a vile man who is stuck with Neanderthal ideas. How much more of this crap can our community take. WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!
Oh yes, I will get a sheep dog puppy, raise him like combat dog and then I pay Mike Huckabee a visit.
Seriously, it is very easy to make a baby. But is difficult to raise child so she/he becomes a responsible, smart and self-confident person of our society. There are so many orphans, children waiting for a couple to adopt them. Who cares if it is a straight or a gay couple?
If Mike Huckabee actually cared about his country he would allow gay couples to adopt children.
Mike,
We were really behind you and your thinking until today…We are the parents of two young adult girls.Both are the lights of our lives. Intelligent, beautiful, loving and funny. Beautiful babies,toddlers,children,teens. Inseparable even now.
The only slight difference is the youngest is attracted to and is in love with a woman. I wish you could know how it hurts for someone to tear your baby down. She is partly our creation and our pride. She has not CHOSE a lifestyle.
She is pure in who she is and what she feels.She is not aberrant, unnatural, or sinful. But it seems you are..who’d of thunk it?
Sit back and watch…SHE WILL BE ACCOMMODATED.You are a minority in your thinking.
She is a beautiful creation of God and there is not ONE thing HE or we would change about her.
This is such bullshit… a puppy isn’t a child. This is the same oversimplification that gets my so pissed off. Once again trying to tell gay people that “this is just as good” when it isn’t. Saying that having a child is sacred or whatever and there are tons of children put up for adoption every year by accidental conception. It’s horrible that people still think being Gay is a threat to America or children with absolutly no evidence to support that view other than “it’s not how god wants it”. Fortunately for all of us, everyone know Huckabee is a whako and about as good a source for information as a Bazooka Joe comic.
The whole “let’s not experiment” tale is such a dishonest rhetorical fallacy, it’s disgusting. Like with openly gay people serving in the military, there have been numerous countries in the world that have been allowing gay couples to adopt children for many years now, and no negative impact on the children’s development has been determined. Offensive and absolutely ignorant.
Huckabee definately fits into the batshit crazy category so I never take anything he says seriously….John Stewart had him as a guest in his show and right when Huckabee starts talking he says that the way this country can keep improving or something like that was if people kept procreating and that homosexuals were bad people..its just like “ok whatever crazy person…”
but when they are in a position of power that is different..and that is not a good thing :/
Chickengirl, he was very much in a position of power. He was Governor of Arkansas, and that state officially now stands as the state with some of the most oppressive laws for their LGBT citizens–including one of the few laws on the books banning gays from adopting kids. Huckabee was only interested in destroying decent Arkansas families and shoving gays and lesbians back into the closet. Don’t think it matters because its just Arkansas? Be wary–crazy spreads!
… he’s also in a position of power as a talk show host.