Elmer Gantry
Posted on 02/02/2015 8:56:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who's expected to run for president in 2016, says gay marriage isn't a political issue, but a biblical issue.
"This is not a political issue," Huckabee said on CNN's "State of the Union." "It is a biblical issue. And as a biblical issue — unless I get a new version of the Scriptures, it's really not my place to say, OK, I'm just going to evolve. It's like asking someone who's Jewish to start serving bacon-wrapped shrimp in their deli. We don't want to do that — I mean, we're not going to do that. Or like asking a Muslim to serve up something that is offensive to him, or to have dogs in his backyard. We're so sensitive to make sure we don't offend certain religions, but then we act like Christians can't have the convictions that they've had for 2,000 years."
Huckabee, a former Baptist pastor, is considering a 2016 presidential run within the Republican party, which could see a number of candidates vying for the Republican nomination. He's been outspoken on several topics but has always linked his comments to his personal faith and Christianity as a whole.
He previously told The Christian Post that heterosexual Christians have some responsibility for the acceptance of gay marriage and divorce.
"The devaluing of marriage has also happened because many traditional, evangelical Christian people have downplayed the significance of traditional, biblical, heterosexual marriage. And in doing so, once marriage becomes anything less than God's ideal, it becomes easier and easier for us to treat it as if it's not important, that new versions of it are much more acceptable.
He continued: "If heterosexual Christians think marriage is like a revolving door you can go in and out, that the commitment isn't that significant, that denigrates the biblical picture of marriage. And once we have devalued it, it becomes easier and easier to say that, 'Well, any other form of it should also be OK.' Again, I'm not saying that that's the cause, because it isn't, but it just contributes to the overall devaluing and denigrating of marriage."
Huckabee also told CNN that while he might not agree with everyone's lifestyle choices, it doesn't keep him from developing friendships with people.
The former Fox News host said he's accepting of "a lot of people as friends whose lifestyle I don't necessarily adhere to, agree with or practice — doesn't mean that I can't have a good relationship with anyone or lead them or govern them. I don't chuck people out of my circle or out of my life because they have a different point of view. I don't drink alcohol, but, gosh, a lot of my friends, maybe most of them, do. You know, I don't use profanity, but, believe me, I have got a lot of friends who do."
it cant be BOTH??
It’s both. Marriage is both a religious issue and a legal issue. He is addressing only the former.
Well, there is actually a third thing: It is a “word definition” issue. I suppose we could have always had marriages between men and goats, women and donkeys, but nobody would have respected them as legitimate or sane.
Hmmmm, kinda like how I see same sex marriage.
And “Gay Marriage” is not about gay “rights”,
it’s about rejecting and criminalizing those Biblical values.
Yup.
It's a political,cultural,moral *and* Biblical issue...moron!
Elmer Gantry
Why is Huckabee suddenly coming out with all kinds of political statements, now that the primaries are just around the corner?
it most certainly is,,
rabid dogs arent strictly a political issue either...but we still need a law to ensure that theyre properly dealt with
How bad is Arkansas that this man and Bill Clinton were both governors there?
I still cannot believe that no one explains this simple reality:
Marriage is an establishment of religion.
The implications of this are crystal clear:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. This means that the judiciary cannot change the definition of marriage.
People will say that the government has successfully intertwined itself to the process of marriage. That is completely irrelevant to the CIVIL RIGHTS issue violated in the more than dozen federal court decisions changing the definition of marriage.
Notice there is never one word said that the state is intruding on the church here in the grand lie of “separation of church and state.” It is always ok for the state to set the church right on any issue.
But if the church dare raise its voice against the state, then we get the IRS and all kinds of political grandstanding about silencing the Church.
The state has breached the separation. If it hates marriage this much— then withdraw from this establishment of religion. It can take whatever positions it want to take in legal agreements or tax law through iterations of civil relationships.
Civil unions are an obvious government alternative. Saying this is second class status is absurd. In Europe, civil unions are preferred and privileged over marriage. If there really is a secular renaissance here in America, then write your own language and laws to reflect those assumptions. Stop deliberating building anti religious laws that you know are intended to legalize discrimination against those religiously orthodox.
This has always been about anchoring the privileges of sexual fundamentalists [gay rights community] and secular fundamentalists [those who believe there should be no public expressions of religious adherence]. These acts by the courts are clear civil rights violations of the first freedom spelled out in the first amendment.
Being a Biblical issue is what makes it a political issue, seeing as the spirit behind the democrats is that of anti-Christ.
The killing of children can’t be a non-political issue, Hucks. If it is legal for “doctors” to offer this procedure, then it had to be decided in the courts. Thus, legal/political.
The only thing that would make it non-political would be if all doctors were so moral they would never dream of offering the procedure, and all women were so moral they would never dream of wanting it, and wouldn’t need it to begin with.
Mike needs to read a Bible dictionary.
Can Hickabee be NO issue?
Huckabee just reinforces everyone’s ‘idea’ of Arkansasans ? being stupid. Not saying its true but the stereotype of them being hicks is there.
It’s political for as long as the State thinks thank it should be able to redefine something.
If you start with the premise that it is a Biblical issue, not a political issue, then you cede the discussion to anyone who does not accept the authority of the Bible. It’s the same bs Mario Cuomo and Nancy Pelosi use about abortion - that they’re “personally opposed” but they would never force their religious beliefs on others.
It’s a human-nature issue. It is completely at odds with Human nature. The Bible is based on a recognition of human nature.
It’s political because politicians are giving special favors to people who belong to certain groups.
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