Watch as Mike Huckabee, with nothing left to lose now that the Supreme Court has ruled for same-sex marriage, denounces love as too “sentimental and emotional.”
Mike Huckabee on Sunday continued his attack on same-sex marriage and the Supreme Court’s decision favoring marriage equality. The 2016 Republican presidential candidate attacked love as too “sentimental and emotional,” this morning, while speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper.
“Which do you think threatens to undermine the institution of marriage in this country more, same-sex marriage or the rampant ranks of infidelity and the high divorce rates in this country among straight couples?,” Tapper asked.
The former Arkansas governor tried to use his country charm to respond.
“Kind of like asking me which wing of the airplane is the one that’s most important, the one on the left, the one on the right?,” he quipped.
“The whole point of marriage is to create a relationship where two people are committed as life partners,” Huckabee went on, offering a perfectly reasonable definition of marriage, regardless of the genders of the spouses.
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“One of the mistakes we have even heard over the course of the same-sex marriage debate is that marriage is all about just love and feeling and sentimentality,” he offered. “And, regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a committed relationship in which the focus is upon meeting the needs of the partner.”
“And that sense of selfishness and the redefinition of love as to something that is purely sentimental and emotional has been destructive,” Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister insisted.
He of course then had to compare marriage with polygamy.
“And I think it will prove to be destructive in every definition of marriage, be it heterosexual or homosexual or polygamy or wherever the marriage redefinition ends up taking us over the course of the next few years.”
Tapper did not attempt to push back or challenge Huckabee in any way.
What Huckabee will forever fail to understand is that spouses in same-sex marriages are just as committed to each other as spouses in different-sex marriages, and possibly more, given how hard they’ve had to fight for those relationships. Heterosexuals certainly do not hold the patent on commitment and devotion, and if marriage is “in trouble” today, it is more because of how it was modeled to those who have entered into it – not because its participants are straight or gay.
Here’s Huckabee:
As a reminder, Justice Anthony Kennedy, in drafting the majority opinion on the Supreme Court’s marriage ruling, wrote in part,
“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.”Â
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