Mike Huckabee made an appearance on CNN's State Of The Union show this morning in which he reiterated his strong opposition to marriage equality, claiming that it is a religious issue for him. He stated that it would be like asking someone who is Jewish to serve bacon wrapped shrimp in his/her deli.
The problem is that no one is asking or demanding Huckabee to marry someone of the same sex. And, no one is asking or demanding that the Southern Baptist churches (which Huckabee is a member) to marry gay folks. His views make no sense other than a clear sense of irrational homophobia.
Dana Bash also asked him about the conflict between his religious views about homosexuality and him (allegedly) having gay friends.
From Towleroad:
Former Arkansas Governor and GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee made an appearance on CNN's State of the Union this morning where Dana Bash asked him about the conflict between his religious beliefs regarding homosexuality (he has called it "an aberrant, unnatural and sinful lifestyle") and the "gay friends" he claims to have.
Said Huckabee:
"People can be my friends who have lifestyles that are not necessarily my lifestyle. I don't shut people out of my circle or out of my life because they have a different point of view. I don't drink alcohol, but gosh -- a lot of my friends, maybe most of them, do. You know, I don't use profanity, but believe me, I've got a lot of friends who do. Some people really like classical music and ballet and opera -- it's not my cup of tea."
Huckabee then made a few remarks propping up the far-right's new signature meme - that it is not gay people who are being disenfranchised when businesses refuse to serve them, it's the religious business owners who are the victims:
"I'd like to think that there's room in America for people who have different points of view without screaming and shouting and wanting to shut their businesses down. What worries me in this new environment we're in, it's not just that someone might disagree. They don't want to argue with me, even take a different point of view. They want to close someone's business down. Put them in an economic position of disenfranchisement."
Check out the entertaining tweets below the fold.