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."
Giving him the benefit of the doubt, as a former pastor he could be trying to say that it being a Biblical issue ends the debate, since the Biblical is infinitely superior to the political. Therefore, since the Bible prescribes marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman, that should end the political discussion. If ours was still a Christian nation, of course.
Great film.
The gay agenda sure is a communist/islamist bait political issue to fool the gays ultimately.
Besides everything is Biblical in end times.
Given all the non profits the State supports without a peep from the Supreme Court, we are either lead by total idiots or the State already has a secret religion and secretly selects people accorsing to it.
Huck is trying to suck up to the liberals who want to believe the government should have no say so in the matters of marriage.
Its a church thing.
Despite the fact that marriage is a legal contract.
And so now he is going all libertarian on us as he tries to dodge and ignore the queer marriage elephant in the room.
Sad.
As a Socon, I want to like Mike. But if he’s too chicken to address queer marriages from a legal and governmental POV, then forget him.
The Bible also prescribes pork as an unclean meat that is forbidden to eat and does not allow shaving, stating "do not trim off the hair on your temples or trim your beards".
If your ONLY argument against gay marriage is "the Bible says its wrong", that will be the response to the discussion.
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