A Huckabee sore spot.
Like Ezra, I was pretty impressed -- in a "could the GOP actually produce a human candidate?!?" sort of way -- with this Newsweek q&a on Mike Huckabee. But this part really rankles me:
Q: Do you believe that gays are going to hell?
A:No. I don’t know that Baptists would make a statement that anyone goes to hell based on sexual orientation. Heaven is about one’s personal faith and therefore it has to do with one’s relationship to Jesus, not someone’s relationship to someone else.
Pretty good, but then:
Q: I ask because you’ve made a comment about the openly gay congressman, Barney Frank, that sounded pejorative. [Addressing Iowa's Christian Alliance, Huckabee said: "In our lifetimes, we've seen our country go from 'Leave It to Beaver' to 'Beavis and Butt-head,' from Barney Fife to Barney Frank, from 'Father Knows Best' to television shows where father knows nothing."]
A: It wasn’t intended about same-sex lifestyle. He epitomizes as far left as you can get, far away from the Main Street American way of life.
Oh, bullshit. This sort of fudging over truly ugly implications is at the rotted heart of the current GOP. Frank is pretty much right in the middle of the House Democratic pack in terms of "progressivism". Here he is getting blasted by David Sirota for accepting Fast Track. Here he is claiming that "Inequality is not necessarily a bad thing. It's necessary in the capitalist system, and I'm a capitalist," and adding that "Government doesn't have to interfere with the free enterprise system, but we can work along with it to reduce inequality".
Where Frank stands out is on social issues; he supports medical marijuana. He's a gay man who supports gay marriage and is outspoken about his support for openness and tolerance regarding sexual preference -- stances and emphases that should hardly brand somebody as "far left", but which Huckabee and his competitors in the GOP field desperately need to ensure remains the case.
But of course what Huckabee is really refering to is this. He's not noble enough to stay away from the subject and not brave enough to admit what he's really talking about. Typical but sad.
Q: Do you believe that gays are going to hell?
A:No. I don’t know that Baptists would make a statement that anyone goes to hell based on sexual orientation. Heaven is about one’s personal faith and therefore it has to do with one’s relationship to Jesus, not someone’s relationship to someone else.
Pretty good, but then:
Q: I ask because you’ve made a comment about the openly gay congressman, Barney Frank, that sounded pejorative. [Addressing Iowa's Christian Alliance, Huckabee said: "In our lifetimes, we've seen our country go from 'Leave It to Beaver' to 'Beavis and Butt-head,' from Barney Fife to Barney Frank, from 'Father Knows Best' to television shows where father knows nothing."]
A: It wasn’t intended about same-sex lifestyle. He epitomizes as far left as you can get, far away from the Main Street American way of life.
Oh, bullshit. This sort of fudging over truly ugly implications is at the rotted heart of the current GOP. Frank is pretty much right in the middle of the House Democratic pack in terms of "progressivism". Here he is getting blasted by David Sirota for accepting Fast Track. Here he is claiming that "Inequality is not necessarily a bad thing. It's necessary in the capitalist system, and I'm a capitalist," and adding that "Government doesn't have to interfere with the free enterprise system, but we can work along with it to reduce inequality".
Where Frank stands out is on social issues; he supports medical marijuana. He's a gay man who supports gay marriage and is outspoken about his support for openness and tolerance regarding sexual preference -- stances and emphases that should hardly brand somebody as "far left", but which Huckabee and his competitors in the GOP field desperately need to ensure remains the case.
But of course what Huckabee is really refering to is this. He's not noble enough to stay away from the subject and not brave enough to admit what he's really talking about. Typical but sad.
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