Discussion: Huckabee: Gay-Rights Movement 'Won't Stop Until There Are No Churches'

system1 · April 2, 2015, 4:55pm

Discussion for article #234973

wwss · April 2, 2015, 5:09pm

You know, I think this man has been sitting too close to Michell Bachmann.

antisachetdethe · April 2, 2015, 5:11pm

Guess he couldn’t be “out-dumbed” by his fellow Arkansan, Sen. Cotton

druid800 · April 2, 2015, 5:12pm

So mikey…Projecting a little now? Seeing as how you RWNJ socons won’t rest in your crusade to stamp them out until there are no gays?

dr_coyote · April 2, 2015, 5:13pm

“I don’t actually have the guts, brains, smarts, or self-discipline to serve as President, so I can say stupid unsupportable things that make frightened elderly low-information voters and morons send me money.”

antisachetdethe · April 2, 2015, 5:14pm

Rowan Williams tells ‘persecuted’ western Christians to grow up

Christians in Britain and the US who claim that they are persecuted should “grow up” and not exaggerate what amounts to feeling “mildly uncomfortable”, according to Rowan Williams, who last year stepped down as archbishop of Canterbury after an often turbulent decade.

“When you’ve had any contact with real persecuted minorities you learn to use the word very chastely,” he said. “Persecution is not being made to feel mildly uncomfortable. ‘For goodness sake, grow up,’ I want to say.”

True persecution was “systematic brutality and often murderous hostility that means that every morning you wonder if you and your children are going to live through the day”. He cited the experience of a woman he met in India “who had seen her husband butchered by a mob”.

mantan · April 2, 2015, 5:18pm

people who are spreading

Golly, I bet those jowls were swinging and bobbing as Huck digested his lunch and vented.
I would like to hear him elaborate on this:

I’m talking now about the unabridged, unapologetic Gospel that is really God’s truth

Is this the New Testament where Jesus rags on John for staying out all night clubbing instead of making that quiche he promised, the bitch?

blue_grit · April 2, 2015, 5:20pm

Sometimes I wonder if all the people in Arkansas who elected Bill Clinton governor twice have left the state.

antisachetdethe · April 2, 2015, 5:21pm

doctora · April 2, 2015, 5:22pm

They used to say that about the Communists. And the Ottomans. And the Visigoths. Yet, Christian religion continues to be strong and vibrant. It’s built on the strong foundation of Jesus Christ himself! So, have some faith, Huck. You know what that is, right?

commenterperson · April 2, 2015, 5:23pm

It’s a tough call to say which of those two nuts is nuttier: the Huckster or the Cottonhead.

astralfire · April 2, 2015, 5:25pm

Constantly equating the church with homophobia is doing a far better job hurting Christianity than Dawkins ever could.

Please proceed, Governor.

commenterperson · April 2, 2015, 5:25pm

Actually, a world without “Christian” churches of the Huckster’s variety wouldn’t be such a bad thing.

antisachetdethe · April 2, 2015, 5:27pm

Perhaps the Huckster should follow Proverbs 23:2 “and put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony.”

renatastar · April 2, 2015, 5:29pm

He is selling a book and is “thinking” about running for president. The huckster is doing his every-four-year run for his supporters money.

sjk · April 2, 2015, 5:30pm

Who. Fucking. Cares.

imkmu3 · April 2, 2015, 5:30pm

Do you remember when the media used to talk about this guy as a legitimate Presidential candidate?

antisachetdethe · April 2, 2015, 5:31pm

Some of us in the gay rights world want there to be churches. How else can we get married in the AbFab Episcopal Cathedrals?

manutgop · April 2, 2015, 5:31pm

I think Mike Huckabee is the kind of Christian Gandhi had in mind.

sabatia · April 2, 2015, 5:35pm

What a lying vicious thug of a hypocrite Huckabee is, hiding his racism and his homophobia behind lies and his Bible. I wipe my tail with Huckabee’s Republican Bible.