Mike Huckabee is a bigoted douchebag

Mike Huckabee was interviewed by a student reporter named Michael Tracey at The College of New Jersey.  In the interview, Huckabee said some bigoted things about gay marriage.  Tracey then, gasp, published what Huckabee said in a campus newspaper called The Perspective:

“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?”

 Thanks to the internet, his statements have been widely publicized and criticized, and rightly so.  Huckabee was not pleased.  So how did this Republican presidential candidate reply?  By blaming the reporter, of course.  Huckabee called for the reporter to release the transcript of the interview, which he did.  Huckabee then talked about it on FOX:  (see video)

1) While it's true that Huckabee didn't say that incest and polygamy are the same as homosexuality, HE was the one who brought up incest and polygamy, NOT the reporter, so HE was the one who linked them.  He was the one who put them into the same category ("things I don't believe should be approved of by the U.S. government").  Even if he didn't explicitly say "I think that these things are equal", he was the one who made that link.

2) It's a slippery slope argument.  And a red herring.  They weren't talking about incest and polygamy.  They were talking about gay marriage.  You don't really have much of an argument if the interview goes like this: "So why are you against topic A?"  "Because topic B and C are bad!"  Not only do polygamy and incest have NOTHING AT ALL to do with gay marriage, invoking those topics in the first place shows us that your case against gay marriage isn't strong enough to stand alone.

3) The definition of marriage has ALREADY changed.  He claims to be a Christian.  Has he even read his Bible?  It's not exactly a secret that the bible says the following about marriage:
  a) Women are practically property. (Ephesians 5:22-24, 1 Timothy 2:11-14, 1 Corinthians 14:34-35)
  b) Love has nothing to do with marriage.  You found a hot chick when you killed her family in a war?  Fuck her and marry her!  (Deuteronomy 20:10-14, Deuteronomy 22:28-29, Exodus 21:7-11, Judges 21:10-24, Numbers 31:7-18, Deuteronomy 21:10-14, Judges 5:30)
   c) Polygamy is fine by God (Exodus 21:10, Deuteronomy 21:15, Genesis 28:9).  See: King David (2 Samuel 5:13), King Solomon (1 Kings 11:3), Solomon's son (2 Chronicles 11:21), Abraham (Genesis 16:1-3, Genesis 25:1), Jacob (Genesis 29:16-30)

Also, are we forgetting that inter-racial marriage wasn't fully legal here in the U.S. until 1967?  So what was he saying about "changing the definition of marriage"?  History, motherfucker.  Learn it.  Better late than never, even if you did run for president.

4) What is so bad about polygamy?


P.S. He's going to "charge the mound"?  What about turning the other cheek?   How very Christian of him.