He's a four-star general in the battle against gay marriage. He's fervently pro-life and is dubious about Darwinism. He disciplined his kids with corporal punishment and he loves his guns. And yet, when you're with him, he's so damn folksy and kind and self-deprecating that the liberal media (i.e., me) just want to hug him.And thus this is why we see lazy media types (with the notable exception of Jon Stewart) often cut the affable former minister and covenant marriage advocate way too much slack instead of holding him accountable for his views.
But thankfully, Huck hurtles over the edge with Jacobs, yet again raising the comparison of same-sex marriage to alcoholism and leading down the slippery slope to marrying sheep:
He tells me that when he spoke recently in Japan, there was an American student there who objected to his views on gay marriage. "This was right in the middle of what was going on in west Texas, and I thought, Okay, how can we say that what those polygamists in west Texas are doing is wrong if we allow same-sex marriage? Who are you to tell them that that man can't have fifteen wives? [The student said] 'Well, it's not the same!' And I said, 'Okay, well, here's another one: bestiality. Now I know you're going to have a problem,' and he just went berserk on that. But there was recently an actual news story where a man wanted to marry his animal....I think it was a sheep."On the bestiality matter, Huckabee is an intelligent man - how can he continue saying this crap when he knows full well an animal cannot give consent or sign a legal document? This only makes him look like a jackass (not that I mind); you'd think he and his ilk would drop this argument from their arsenals of anti-gay propaganda.Huckabee says he doesn't know if homosexuality is inborn, but he believes you can control the behavior. He compares homosexuality to obesity or alcoholism: "Some people have a predisposition to alcoholism. Does that mean they're not responsible for getting drunk? No."
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And Huck continues churning out the homophobia, reinforcing the belief that civil rights is a zero-sum game.
I give him the liberal line: Being gay is so integral to a person's identity that it's not a choice, that it's like being African-American.Well, we know that doesn't always work out so well, Huck. Ask Papa Ratzi and his pedophiles, rapists and enablers of the cloth."I'm especially offended by that," he answers immediately. "Because blackness is an inescapable quality. Black is not a behavior. There's no behavior to black. What you can say is that whatever disposition, it's a choice. A lot of people are celibate. When people enter the priesthood, they make a choice to subjugate certain behaviors and/or feelings. It's not that they don't have them; it's that they choose not to act on them."
You should read the rest of this article. There is a hilarious section where Jacobs accompanies Huck to a fundie dinner of 600 true believers, with a theme of "no compromise on gay marriage". The poor writer subjects himself to the kind of sh*t we discuss here on the Blend all the time. It sounds like he was traumatized by this winner:
A man in a black suit and orange tie gets up. I all but rub my eyes to make sure it's not a mirage. The man has my gaydar going nuts, beeping at Nathan Lane levels.BONUS: Here's a classic Huck campaign flashback for you; I guess we'll see more of this in 2012 -- the good pastor tells a rally to shove a pole up the posterior of anyone who has a problem with the Confederate battle flag:The woman next to me in the flower-print dress leans over and says, "He's ex-gay." He used to work for gay rights in Washington before seeing the light.
The ex-gay speaker says the same-sex marriage advocates "just don't get it. We won in California. Nanny-nanny pooh-pooh!"
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"You don't like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your [Confederate] flag. If somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell them what to do with the pole. That's what we'd do."
-- Baptist minister and GOP clown car occupant Mike Huckabee, showing his pious side as he rallied and pandered to The Base at a Myrtle Beach crowd this month.
* The Mike Huckabee Blend files
* Jon Stewart slays the homophobic Huckabeast without breaking a sweat
* Transcript: Jon Stewart and Mike Huckabee Discuss Gay Marriage
At the close of business in 2008, the Best Picture nominees ranked as follows:The first thing that comes to mind here is the disconnect Baehr seems to have between his list of moralist-approved films and the amount of violence in most of them -- and what about the Bond film? I haven't seen Quantum of Solace, but has James Bond been sanitized of sex and violence in this flick?"The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button" (38th)
"Slumdog Millionaire" (103rd)
"Milk" (128th)
"Frost/Nixon" (179th)
"The Reader" (205th)Hollywood used to be called "the entertainment capital of the world." Judging by these awful picks, the Academy is trying to transform Hollywood into "the cultural pigsty of the world"!
...By making such atrocious, unpopular Oscar picks, the Academy seems to be thumbing its collective nose at the vast number of frequent moviegoers who clearly prefer more entertaining movies, like "The Dark Knight," "Iron Man," "Wall-E," "Kung Fu Panda," "Indiana Jones 4" and James Bond ("Quantum Of Solace").
Certainly, these movies are just as well made, if not better made, than "The Reader," "Frost/Nixon" or the gay propaganda film "Milk."
Apparently, the elite snobs at the Academy not only are rejecting the one thing that made Hollywood great - entertainment; they also don't like anything that extols great virtues and institutions like heroism, purity, sacrifice, the military, the traditional family, honesty, liberty above lawlessness and licentiousness, anti-Communism and Christianity.
Baehr, I might remind you, lost his cookies back in 2005 when Brokeback Mountain was enjoying critical success and received oodles of rewards, so we shouldn't be surprised at his reactions this time around.
"Brokeback Mountain," a modern homosexual cowboy movie that tells the 20-year love affair between two men starting in 1963, is twisted, laughable, frustrating, plotless and often boring. It's also politically correct. Thus, it's sure to reap many awards this year from the leftwing media throughout the world and the leftwing elites in Hollywood, including the so-called "Gay Mafia."Now I saw this film -- where did you see "explicit sex scenes" and "explicit nudity"? What film was he watching? Was Ted experiencing some serious projection?The movie opens in Wyoming in 1963 where two young cowboys, Ennis and Jack, are hired to tend some sheep near Brokeback Mountain. The two men become fast friends. One night, however, their friendship becomes an evening of lust and passion, a scene that plays like a nightmarish homosexual rape set in San Quentin Prison.
...Of course, adding to this politically correct tone is plenty of strong foul language, explicit sex scenes and explicit nudity. Surprisingly, there also is a strong tone of sadomasochism to the homosexual relationship in the movie. These scenes probably are the most unintentionally laughable scenes in the entire movie. The movie suggests, however, that this is due to the sexual repression that American society allegedly brings against sodomites like the two homosexual cowboys.
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