Mike Huckabee Is Concerned Marriage Equality Denies Bisexuals Two Spouses

When it comes to understanding the institution he most attacks, Mike Huckabee has a large imagination and not much else.

Mike Huckabee is really no different from any of his Republican opponents on the issue of same-sex marriage. 

Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Lindsey Graham, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, John Kasich, George Pataki, Rand Paul, Mike Pence, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, Scott Walker, and any others who may raise their heads and hands to race to the White House, are all anti-gay, anti-marriage equality, and all for religious reasons.

But imagine you’ve spent most of your professional life being against something, only to find out that, as that Esurance commercial goes, “that’s not how any of this works.”

Take Huckabee’s “understanding” of bisexual people.

“Shouldn’t a bisexual be able to have both a male and female spouse?,” Huckabee asks in his new book designed to get him to the White House, God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy. 

Please proceed, Governor.

“Wouldn’t restricting that person’s access to both genders be denying the bisexual his or her marriage ‘equality?’”

Of course not, but leave it to one of the nation’s most active homophobes – despite what some news outlets are calling a more open-to-equality Huckabee – to get one of the very basics wrong.

Huckabee’s “question” is ridiculous, and akin to him asking if marriage itself should be illegal because it leaves out the rest of the population entirely, sans one’s spouse.

Also ridiculous, is this question, as US News reports: “When advocates of same-sex marriage say, ‘What’s the harm?’ the honest reply is that at this point, we simply don’t have enough reliable accumulated data to be able to say.” 

Sounds like the, “I’m not a scientist” claim Republicans use when they want to deny climate change.

Huckabee tries to take a less-harsh tone in his latest book, but no one should forget he is the organizer of the Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, and has compared same-sex marriage to polygamy, bigamy, and suicide.

And that’s just for starters.

 

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Hat tip: The Advocate