Mike Huckabee Says God Created Marriage For Straight People

BY ON TOP MAGAZINE STAFF 
PUBLISHED: JUNE 21, 2010

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee says he opposes gay marriage,
in part, because of the “ick factor,” and that God created marriage for
straight people.

A just published The New Yorker profile on the former Baptist minister
 and 2012 presidential hopeful includes many of his greatest hits on wh
y he's opposed to being gay, giving gay and lesbian couples the right to
 marry, and children being raised by gay couples.

The piece rejects Huckabee's claim that a student journalist at the College
of New Jersey “grossly distorted” and “sensationalized” his views on gay
 issues. The article plainly says, “Huckabee had not been misquoted.”

In that April interview, Huckabee drew fire for drawing parallels between
being gay to drug use, incest and polygamy, and disagreed with gay
couples raising children because kids “are not puppies.”

“You don't go ahead and accommodate every behavior pattern that is
 against the ideal,” he told the student. “That would be like saying, well,
there are a lot of people who like to use drugs, so let's go ahead and accommodate those who use drugs. There are some people who believe
in incest, so we should accommodate them. There are people who believe
 in polygamy, so we should accommodate them.”

“We should act in the best interest of the children, not in the seeming
 interest of the adults,” Huckabee said, then added, “Children are not
puppies. This is not a time to see if we can experiment and find out,
how does this work?”

And for someone who says he accepts gay people – “And I don't walk
around thinking, Oh, I pity them so much. I accept them as who they
are! Its not like somehow their sin is so much worse than mine” –
he appears unable to stop himself from speaking out against being gay.

“I do believe that God created male and female and intended for marriage
to be the relationship of the two opposite sexes,” he told the magazine.
“Male and female are biologically compatible to have a relationship.
We can get into the ick factor, but the fact is two men in a relationship, two women in a relationship, biologically, that doesn't work the same.”

Huckabee also does not believe gay men and lesbians should be allowed
 to serve in the military and supports a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a heterosexual union.

According to the latest Rasmussen poll, the socially conservative Fox News commentator is the top pick among likely Republican primary voters for
 president in 2012.