Mike Huckabee isn’t radical … for a bigot, anyway
While it should come as no surprise for anyone that knows anything about him, CNN’s political ticker had a nice little snippet on Mike Huckabee’s gay marriage comments:
In an interview with the religious Web site beliefnet.com, Huckabee pushes back on recent critics who have called some of his positions “radical.”
“I think the radical view is to say that we’re going to change the definition of marriage so that it can mean two men, two women, a man and three women, a man and a child, a man and animal,” he said in the interview, published on the Web site Wednesday. “Again, once we change the definition, the door is open to change it again.”
So you can see he’s really not all that radical - for a bigot, anyway.
“The door is open to change it again.” Interesting he should say such a thing. You know, again, he’s right… because first we did dastardly things like the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution where “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” And it was all downhill from there. Next thing you know women could vote with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. We’ve never recovered from these two shenanigans!
Leave it to the Republicans and the fanatical religious right to want to use the Constitution to deny rights rather than to grant them.