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That means either Huckabee is a complete idiot, or a stinking liar.
My money is on both.
Huckabee Claimed Ignorance About 'Kill The Gays' Pastor's Extremist Views
Submitted by Miranda Blue on Thursday, 11/12/2015 1:36 pm
In a press gaggle at last weekends National Religious Liberties Conference in Iowa, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee dismissed concerns about the extremism of its organizer, Kevin Swanson, telling a reporter that he didnt have any knowledge that Swanson backs the death penalty for homosexuality. Indiana broadcaster Joyce Oglesby ran audio of the interaction on her radio program on Friday. An unnamed reporter asked Huckabee, apparently directly after his speech to the conference, about reports that there are a few pastors speaking her today that say that if youre homosexual, you should be prosecuted, you should actually be killed. Obviously, I dont agree with that, Huckabee responded. I dont think anyones ever accused me of saying that. And I dont know, did anyone say that from this stage today? The reporter responded that while nobody had said such things from the stage yet that day, the organizer and other speakers had previously made such remarks. I cant go with there are some reports that, Huckabee responded. Give me a specific, give me something to react to, that wont work for me, because I dont have any knowledge of that. All I know is what I said, I cant be responsible for what anybody else said on that stage, and apparently nobody said that on that stage. If Huckabee had stuck around just a few minutes after his speech, he would have heard Swanson saying exactly that, bellowing to the audience that the biblically ordained punishment for homosexuality is death. If he had stuck around until the next day of the conference, he would have heard Swanson return to the theme, saying that he doesnt want the government to impose the death penalty for homosexuality quite yet because he wants to give the culture time to change and gays time to repent before imposing his version of biblical law. And if Huckabee or anybody on his staff had bothered to do any basic research before agreeing to attend the conference, these statements would not have come as a surprise. One of Huckabees fellow GOP candidates likely Ben Carson reportedly dropped out of the conference after we reported on Swansons extremist views. Likewise, People For the American Way called on Huckabee and his fellow candidates Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal to drop out of the summit a full week before it started, citing Swansons long history of extremism, including his defense of the death penalty for gay people. As the Cato Institutes David Boaz writes today, showing up at Swansons conference showed appalling judgment on the part of Huckabee, Cruz and Jindal. It seems that after this weekends conference, there are plenty of specific reports available for Huckabee to react to. He should be asked to explain himself.
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moondust
(20,006 posts)Kevin Swanson didn't suddenly appear out of nowhere a week ago. Do the Huckster, Cruz, Jindal and their staffs not have access to Google?
tabasco
(22,974 posts)But we already knew that.
TexasProgresive
(12,158 posts)At least since the end of the last century.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Ignorance oozes from every pore on the mans body.
In the dictionary, next to "ignorance"......
Huckabee is an awful human being.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)as are most all republican candidates and their followers.
Yet even in that crowd, Huckabee stands out for his vileness.
randys1
(16,286 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)And a POS as a human being overall. He's just mad, because Foxnews (the MASTERS of the GOP) kept him at the kiddie table...AGAIN!
deathrind
(1,786 posts)To this type of hate ever...
Initech
(100,102 posts)There's a reason why extremists like him will never be president.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)Thou shalt NOT lie.
the operative word being NOT
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Would a Democrat get a pass for claiming (feigning) ignorance about attending a conference hosted by a man with such out-of-the-mainstream, lunatic pronouncements?
While I could hardly care less that Huckabee and Jindal attended Swanson's hatefest, Cruz is getting a lot of positive media attention right now, and even got to be in the last Republican debate. Is Cruz getting buttonholed about this?