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"Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by...
...heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it."
Huckabee Books Offers Surprising Take on Gay Marriage
By Andrew Rafferty
Potential 2016 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's forthcoming book, "God, Guns, Grits and Gravy," is mostly filled with his common defenses of conservative ideals. But his comments on same-sex marriage may surprise even his evangelical supporters.
"The claim that same-sex marriage is destroying society is actually greatly overstated," Huckabee writes. "Christians who themselves abandoned the primacy of lifelong marriage to follow the divorce and remarriage customs of a secular society have as much to answer for as those who militantly push to redefine marriage."
He later adds, "Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it."
It is different tone than many are used to hearing from the 2008 Iowa caucus winner who threatened to leave the Republican for softening its opposition to gay marriage.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/huckabee-books-offers-surprising-take-gay-marriage-n282546
By Andrew Rafferty
Potential 2016 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's forthcoming book, "God, Guns, Grits and Gravy," is mostly filled with his common defenses of conservative ideals. But his comments on same-sex marriage may surprise even his evangelical supporters.
"The claim that same-sex marriage is destroying society is actually greatly overstated," Huckabee writes. "Christians who themselves abandoned the primacy of lifelong marriage to follow the divorce and remarriage customs of a secular society have as much to answer for as those who militantly push to redefine marriage."
He later adds, "Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it."
It is different tone than many are used to hearing from the 2008 Iowa caucus winner who threatened to leave the Republican for softening its opposition to gay marriage.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/huckabee-books-offers-surprising-take-gay-marriage-n282546
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