Huckabee clarifies that he opposes gay rights because he’s disgusted by gay

[romantico]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 6:55pm

Former Arkansas governor and current Fox News personality Mike Huckabee has responded to the controversy surrounding his New Yorker profile, in which he calls gay relationships icky and jokes that he would support gay marriage if he were forced into an affair with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

My use of the phrase ick factor was as the established notion from within the Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, Transgender GLBT community. It was not an indication of personal aversion, but rather a reference to an established phrase used mostly from same sex marriage advocates and militants not one I created.

Former colleague of then Professor Obama from the University of Chicago's Law School, Dr. Martha Nussbaum, has often made reference to the ick factor in her professional writings and is credited with applying the phrase to the GLBT community.

This phrase is not new. This phrase is not mine.

More over, the phrase ick factor was widely used as early as the late 1990's and was just the subject of an entire article written on April 12 of this year by Joseph Erbentraut and he even put Ick Factor in the title.

I stand by my statement, and the misrepresentations of those who seek to dishonestly distort my views expose their duplicity and hypocrisy.

This is a rather bizarre defense, since Nussbaum uses the ick factor to argue that opponents of gay political initiatives are driven by their “aversion to man-on-man anal sex (thats the ick) not any sophisticated legal or Biblical theories of behavior. As Joseph Erbentraut explains in that April 12th article, according to Nussbaum's theory' those opposed to same sex marriage for example, maintain their beliefs largely due to an underlying,subconscious feeling of disgust at the thought of what defines gay as, well, gay as well as lesbian as lesbian What is done in the bedroom. So is Huckabee conceding the point that his opposition to gay marriage is driven by personal aversion?

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/23/huckabee-gay-sex/

Updated On: 6/23/10 at 06:55 PM

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 6:56pm

Well, then he shouldn't have any and should stop thinking about it all the time.

[HOUFlip04]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 7:23pm

I'm disgusted by the thought of Huckabee having sex in general. Speaking of ick factor!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 7:40pm

I remember "the ick" from Ally McBeal. I bet that's where Ms Huckabee got it from.

But - I'm not even really sure what this article is saying.

[nygrl232]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 8:00pm

Huckabee's got this gentle, folksy face and is empirically articulate. Why's he gotta mess it up with hatefulness?

[nygrl232]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 8:47pm

Sigh.

[Kalimba]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 9:36pm

Hey Huckabee, you know what Kalimba finds disgusting? That vile family photo of yours. Talk about ick!! Now if someone can find it and post it please!

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 9:42pm

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 9:49pm

So many stripes... and rolls... and things...

[Piper3500]

Posted: 6/23/10 at 10:06pm

"Huckabee's got this gentle, folksy face and is empirically articulate. Why's he gotta mess it up with hatefulness?"

he also showed himself as an educated man who is actually kind of a hick and/or "uneducated" on the show "talking to americans"
i don't know if i can put the clip up but he really looked dumb.

[Jon]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 7:25pm

I'm disgusted by the thought of ugly people having sex. It should be illegal to have sex unless you look like a movie star.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 7:49pm

Huckabee's got this gentle, folksy face and is empirically articulate. Why's he gotta mess it up with hatefulness?

What you listed above is what makes him so dangerous.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 6/26/10 at 12:41am

Regarding that picture:

a) They look like they should be on the cover of a gospel album that you find at a Goodwill.

and

b) It looks like she's strangling that dog!

[Lavieboheme3090]

Posted: 6/26/10 at 2:55am

Well one of his kids did get into a lot of trouble for killing a dog...

[Lavieboheme3090]

Posted: 6/26/10 at 2:55am

Well one of his kids did get into a lot of trouble for killing a dog...