Former Arkansas governor, GOP Presidential hopeful and over-all troll Mike Huckabee has lashed out at the queer community, labeling LGBTQ people the “greatest threat” to America. Sorry, ISIL (gosh, we never thought we’d write that).
Huckabee, in an interview with The Christian Post, decried the advances in equality made by queer people over the past decade. “The biggest threat to biblical principles today is the failure to apply a biblical standard of maleness and femaleness,” he said. “We are creating this illusion that there is no gender, there is no identity, and I’m blaming the Christian Church.” He went on to lay out how no-fault divorce led to a greater acceptance of gay people. “That’s when we first started losing that sense of sacredness of what marriage meant,” he claimed. “So I’m not really that surprised that same sex-marriage has become in vogue because the Christian Church were the ones who essentially abdicated a strict responsibility about what biblical marriage should look like.”
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“Once you’ve destroyed that,” Huckabee continued, “why can’t you have any and everything? The gender dysphoria we’re seeing today is largely due to the fact that the Church has failed to present very clearly the words of Jesus and Genesis 5:2: “Male and female He created them.'”
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Huckabee went on to disparage single parents, young people and technology for the decay in America’s moral fiber…though he never could quite explain how any of said factors have caused all the current woes of the United States.
Prior to his Presidential runs in 2008 and 2016, as well as his career in government, Huckabee worked as a Southern Baptist minister. His daughter is the widely criticized Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Press Secretary to the Trump White House.
DCguy
Repubilcans want to destroy LGBTs, but the anti-LGBT trolls keep coming in here to defend them and Queerty lets them.
Apparently clicks are more important than dealing with groups that seek to destroy your readers.
Jimmy
Reply to “CobraPowers” response to DCguy. As a gay man with many gay friends, acquaintances and colleagues, your claim that 40% of LGBT people attempt suicide is utter bullshit. Heterosexuals commit suicide. Heterosexuals have substance abuse issues. Heterosexuals experience reckless hedonism leading to STDs. The issues you claim are not LGBT issues. They are human issues SWEETIE!
BigJohnSF
40% of LGBT people attempt suicide? Yeah, right. You mean 40% of transgender people.
CobraPowers
Why are you all so scared of statistics and facts? We have a problem as a community with substance abuse, STD’s and depression/suicide, we cannot blame it on others, we MUST take personal responsibility for our lives.
CobraPowers
@Jimmy – Actually, all of those issues show up in our community at much higher rates, we have a problem and we need to talk about it instead of calling anybody who wants to address these issues as “self-hating”. Don’t believe me? Google it. I’ve found those statistics in LGBT friendly health websites.
DarkZephyr
@CobraPowers,
First of all, your reponse to DCguy doesn’t seem to match what he said at all. Its as though you read and responded to an entirely different comment.
Secondly, you don’t think that the depression and suicide rates might have anything to do with societal standards about gender, masculinity and femininity? Or homophobia and anti-LGBT bigotry and how it might affect an LGBT person’s psyche? You think its something that just up and happens from being LGBT, period?
DCguy
@CobraPowers said…..
“Why are you all so scared of statistics and facts?”
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1. Notice how the right wing anti-LGBT trolls always attack LGBTs even when it is off topic?
2. Notice how it can’t post facts to back up it’s lie? This troll is DESPERATELY trying to deflect the topic off of the Hateful bigots in the GOP and will tell any lie to do it.
batesmotel
It’s actually transgenders that make up the majority of the percentage of suicides under the LGBT label. That’s one of the problems of running all the letters together. You don’t get accurate statistics, which is clear here since everyone is arguing that not that many gays commit suicide. It is true that the percentage is 40%, but about 30% of that is transgenders. The statistics are available online in numerous reports. Just use your little search engines and pour over the data and do some research.
djmcgamester
@CobraPowers: I’ll acknowledge having had suicide attempts and problems with alcohol in my past BUT none of it had anything to do with my sexuality. The alcoholism fed into depression. I assure you my alcoholism was fully manifest before I came out at the age of 21. Given that the response from my friends, family and job was basically “Cool, man”, I know that I didn’t feel alienated.
Yes, that’s anecdotal. I know plenty of gay men with meth problems. Haven’t seen a lot of suicide attempts in adult gays. As @BigJohnSF said, my experience living in NYC is that more trans people attempt suicide than LGB individuals.
Cai
Galations 3:28 (MSG) “In Christ’s family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female.” Bam. Who cares what you are as long as you follow, Mikey?
ptb2016
And that wasn’t Jesus, but Saul Of Tarsus, Saint Paul, as he became, who was probably a failed rabbi, thrown out of the Jewish community but dragging all the old Jewish religion into the new religion he professed to honour, just forgot Love one another was Jesus answer to the question what is the greatest commandment. No « as long as it’s between a man and a woman inside marriage! »
djmcgamester
@ptb2016: I know little of the Bible, so you’ll probably be better able to verify this. I thought Paul was also the one who condemned male/male sex (homosexuality wasn’t even considered a thing back then). To my knowledge, Jesus had zero to say on the subject.
Cai
Plus, Britney Spears with her 55 hour marriage. Don’t tell me about the “sacredness” of marriage till you clean up your own house first.
DCguy
Mic Drop
jcoberkrom
I love Buttigieg’s response to homophobes. Don’t blame him for being gay talk to his maker.
Virpilosus
YES!!!
niles
Guess who was appointed to the board of the Kennedy Center? Yep, that’s right, Mr. Gay-hating Hog himself. Remember that when hateful right wing *sshats get nominated for the awards next year.
Daggerman
..he does not believe in change..is he just saying ‘normal’ people only deserve this earth, I think he may be saying so-so I do want him to have some terrible car crash and die…if you seriously can’t cope with any type of Queerness go f**K O**!!!!!! No you’re going the WRONG WAY MAN!
rbernard
First, Mike Huckabee is no moral authority and most people just ignore him.
Second, he is just furious he can’t motivate people like he used to anymore with his religious scare tactics.
Third, most people have figured out that sexually secure men don’t obsess on what other consenting adults do in the bedroom.
Fourth and most important, most vocal homophobic men are in reality self loathing closeted homosexuals in a panic that someone might suspect them of being gay, so they obsess on pointing out other gay men to deflect attention away from themselves.
RExxx59A
Well put. I don’t know who I despise most; him or the ……………………daughter, in the White House.
Virpilosus
RBernard, VERY nicely and concisely stated!
UlfRaynor
I often enjoy pointing out to Christians like Mike, that God was the original gender bender, supposedly, God created man to be in the image of God, then God thought man needed companionship, so God drew woman out of man; so now, the original creation (Adam) is only half of what he used to be.
That would make God and the original Adam androgynous hermaphrodites.
evanxx
Hucka-BS & his daughter are traitors to this country, bigots, & homophobes. They do not represent the views of most Americans today. They have their heads buried so deeply in religious extremism, they can’t see the light of a new era coming that will push them to extinction. Mike Hucka-BS is the cancer in our religious freedoms.
“The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.” __ Arthur C. Clarke
Donald Dork
And more Americans are afraid of religious extremism than Queer people
j41005
I totally agree with Mr. Huckabee. We need to get back to the Biblical concept of marriage….you know, the one where men have multiple wives, and unlimited concubines. The Biblical marriage where women are considered lower than cattle in worth. The Biblical marriage where women have zero say in the home and must submit to the male ego.
This is the Biblical marriage you’re wanting, is it not, Mr. Huckabee?
Or are you only wanting YOUR version of a “Biblical marriage”?
Mr. Huckabee, can you explain why you feel so threatened by same-sex marriages? Wouldn’t you feel more satisfied knowing your neighbors are married and in committed relationships? (Not that folks cannot be in committed relationships without marriage…many are).
Why, Mr Huckabee do you feel so threatened? Do you just hate LGBTQ folks so much? Or do you just feel so superior and self-righteous that you don’t believe everyone deserves the same equal rights that you take for granted?
Chipper
j41005 well said
msfrost
Read the Bible, in whole, not just the parts you agree with.
youarederanged
First of all, Mike Huckabee is a religious extremist. The extremes never represent the majority. But, I just read the original article and I can’t see anywhere where he used the term “greatest threat”. Has anyone seen that actual quote?
He definitely said, “The biggest threat to biblical principles…” but that has nothing to do with America.
I am a gay conservative atheist and Mike Huckabee does not speak for me or any of the people in my circle. He actually makes me gag. But, it seems this is paraphrasing by two authors now, and they completely distorted his words. The biggest threat to biblical standards is not the same thing as the greatest threat to America. I’d love to be corrected with the actual quote where he says LGBTQ are the greatest threat to America. Smells like fake news to me…
jayceecook
If you read the article then you know darn well Queerty is just paraphrasing what The Christian Post said in the title, “Mike Huckabee identifies ‘biggest threat’ to moral fiber of US, why it’s the Church’s fault (EXCLUSIVE)”, and the first paragraph of their article,
“Redefining gender and sexual identity is the “greatest threat” to the moral fiber of America, said former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, and the fault lies with the Church.”
Did Queerty gloss over the “moral fiber” bit, absolutely. Is that wrong, in a way. However for a lot of Huckabee’s fellow Christian extremists there isn’t a distinction between the two. The moral fiber of America IS America.
desertguy
Whew! I dodged that bullet! Good thing I am not queer…just a man that happens to be gay! Whew!!!
ldweisberg
Oy. I can’t take anyone seriously who takes The Bible seriously. It’s a book authored by multiple, mostly anonymous sources over centuries! It’s an anthology collection of stories and morality tales sprinkled with some historical context. Go live your best life, Huckabee, and leave others alone.
justgeo
Got a gun get a gun do the piece of shit in PLEASE!
BikeHulk
Moderators, I’m flagging this comment. Why isn’t there a flag button? OMG
fur_hunter
No, Mike…..The greatest threat to America are those ignorant, intolerant and bigoted fundamentalist Xtrians, who think THEIR religion is the ONLY ONE….and THEY are always RIGHT and everyone else is always WRONG. If they had it their way, the country would be a theocracy. THEY are the GREATEST threat to America…You STUPID @$$ HOLE F*CKTARD.
james-the-apostate
One might argue Mike Huckabee is a false prophet, delusional and deceives himself. Thus has made (in his puny imagination) his puny god in *HIS* own hateful image. “These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.” (Proverbs 6:16-19 KJV)
Mack
As usual Huckleberry is trying to be relevant. He knows he’s not any more with the rise of another idiot-Donald Trump.
surfpenis
Huckabee needs to spend a little time studying 1st Fellatians, 6:9.
gossipbear
@surfpenis Bwaaahahahaaa! Just spat out my coffee! Genius, dude!
Itsonlythetruth
I don’t listen to anything he has to say. He is a failure as a parent, his daughter is a habitual liar.
Billysees
The greatest threat to America are queer people he says. Nonsense. And to blame the Christian Church and no fault divorce for this threat is more nonsense.
Kangol
Why do white Christians like Mike Huckabee hate gay people so much? Why do they constantly try to pass laws to oppress us and make our lives a living hell? Why won’t gay Republicans denounce them and demand they stop attack gay/LGBTQ people?
radiooutmike
Because ultimately they do realize that being LGBTQ is immutable. They’re scared of a population they can’t control and can’t understand. They’re scared that if they followed the logic of their beliefs, they would have no faith or discover that their religion means something entirely different.
I am an atheist, but I was not always one. Essentially, if you are Christian; you are to believe that the New Testament supplants the Old, Christ died for man’s sins and He taught on two express rules. Love one another and treat others as you would have yourself be treated. You are also to believe that the four Gospels are the divine words of Christ.
This has a lot problems for the modern, conservative American Christian. The OT with its punitive God and rules has no place for the blood of Christ washes that all away. Well, no OT means you can’t have Leviticus condemning fags and multi-fabric clothes. Believing the four Gospels as the word of God is good but problematic. The four we have are the four approved. All other books in the NT were written 30 to 50 years after Christ died when what left of the Apostles wrote letters to the seedling churches about how to act. So, strip those out because they were not Christ.
You end up with the four gospels but Jesus says all the stuff that modern American Christians hate. Be kind, be loving and care not for material items. Do not be a hypocrite or thief. A camel passing through the eye of a needle has a better chance than a rich man entering heaven.
TheMarc
Sure Mike, it has nothing to do with the fact that the Church’s moral authority has been consistently undermined by its own hypocrisy and more people are waking up to that fact. Also, I love how his reasoning is that the Church basically hasn’t been mean or stern enough regarding topics like divorce. Please. It’s the Church’s myopic view on so many topics that have led people to seek faith and a path to God on their own terms; which is in fact the way one should.
nitejonboy
Oh please, the biggest threat to America is that sow of a daughter you raised who’s workin’ in the white house right now. Waste of sperm!
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Hey Schmuckabee : How’s about you and your vile, noxious, smcubag evangelicals hate filled bigots simply MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!!
Vince
Miss Huckleberry fat ass needs to climb down off her high moral post. That is unless I imagined it having a son that likes to torture and kill dogs and a liar for a daughter. That and his association and defense of Josh Duggar the child rapist.
Tony_D
Mike Huckabee is a relic from the past and he just can’t stop proving it.
Billysees
Yes …
CanadianGuy62
I was going to comment about the rank hypocrisy of this vs. his support for twice-divorced, cheater/misogynist/liar-in-chief trump, but decided it wasn’t worth the effort!
DCguy
It’s a good thing you didn’t waste your time pointing out that somebody who claims to support the Bible completely supports someone who violates the Commandment against adultery, and Jesus’s comments about a divorced person who has remarried committing adultery every day.
batesmotel
Mike Huckabee is so obsessed with gays when that’s the least of his problems.
Gary Q VV
Huckabee mania has little affect over the Queer community. Why? …because we’re far stronger than he and his distorted, hateful ideals. We’ve come a long ways my fellow Queers, and as long as we bond together, he and his evil kind won’t break us. That’s the crux of our momentum: to build on our achievements; to realize our commonalities; to not forget our need to make alliances with Queer-friendly people, organizations, companies, politicians; to prevent any degradation amongst ourselves.
Felecia
I don’t know the ages of y’all who are commenting on this, but chill out…it too will pass; just like in the 1920’s when jazz music was blamed for America’s ‘moral decline’…the 30’s saw gangsters get the blame, and after WWII the 50’s and communist-chaser Senator Mc Carthy made the same rabble-rousing stupid claims that Huckabee now is, only then it was the ‘Godless Commies’ and not us LGBT folks being talked about. Let us not forget how rock & roll also was targeted in the 50’s and 60’s as the source of our American woes, too. Hey, we’re so fu*king awesome here in the United States that we gotta lay it all on SOMEBODY’S doorstep, right…? Story of our lives, lol….calm down people, things will move on past this recent addition to the cesspool that is ‘A Dumb-Ass Politician’s Even Dumber Comment’….because someone else will say something that makes Huckabee’s opinion look positively intelligent, lol….
WindsorOntario
Huckabee can go to hell & take his piece of shit daughter with him.
MikeGinMN
There needs to be a clarification/translation of Huckabee’s comments.
” “The biggest threat to biblical principles today is the failure to apply a biblical standard of maleness and femaleness,” he said. “We are creating this illusion that there is no gender, there is no identity, and I’m blaming the Christian Church.” He went on to lay out how no-fault divorce led to a greater acceptance of gay people. “That’s when we first started losing that sense of sacredness of what marriage meant,” he claimed. “So I’m not really that surprised that same sex-marriage has become in vogue because the Christian Church were the ones who essentially abdicated a strict responsibility about what biblical marriage should look like.”
The clarification/translation is simple…. The only threat is to BIGOTS… the INTOLERANT… and medieval church dogma.
tommyboy5023
The greatest threat to America is fox news, the second are the waffle fries at chik fil a.
rbernard
I actually thought the greatest threat to America were white religious fanatics who voted the way their pastor told them to vote.
richybruce
The biggest threat to this country is his lying white trash daughter who will peddle any lie her boss tells her to as long as he gives it to her up her fat white trash ass.