seriously...this is the kind of stuff that really makes every inch of my skin crawl...how could anyone be so fucked up and wrong and still stay alive and have a job in the government? it doesn't make any sense to me!
Huckabee: Gays Haven't Crossed Civil Rights "Violence" Threshold Yet
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee was on The View talking about same-sex marriage and declaring that gay rights are not civil rights because gays have not had violence inflicted upon them like Blacks have.
Said Huckabee: "People who are homosexuals should have every right in terms of their civil rights, to be employed, to do anything they want. But that’s not really the issue. I know you talked about it and I think you got into it a little bit early on. But when we’re talking about a redefinition of an institution, that’s different than individual civil rights. We’re never going to convince each other...But here is the difference. Bull Connor was hosing people down in the streets of Alabama. John Lewis got his skull cracked on the Selma bridge."
No doubt Harvey Milk, Matthew Shepard, Teish Cannon and the thousands of other victims of anti-gay hate crimes would beg to differ, if they could. As Think Progress notes, "Huckabee’s lame violence threshold is nothing more than a shoddy attempt to conceal his deep and fundamental homophobia."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UkXo9tCv48
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