Prof. Fires Back at Huckabee

Professor Martha Nussbaum is rejecting claims from former Gov. Mike Huckabee, who says a term he used to describe homophobic thoughts and feelings toward gay people was first heard from her.

Huckabee was reported as using the term "ick factor" to describe the reaction that people have when thinking about two people of the same sex in a relationship in a piece for the New Yorker.After gay rights leaders demanded an apology, Huckabee released a statement clarifying his quote. He said that the phrase was an "established notion" from the LGBT community, and not "an indication of personal aversion, but rather a reference to an established phrase used mostly from same-sex marriage advocates and militants - not one I created." He also cited University of Chicago Law School professor Martha Nussbaum as having often making references to the "ick factor" in her professional writings about gay rights.

However, Nusbaum told Politico on Friday that Huckabee is wrong again, and has demanded an apology. She said she has never used the phrase in any of her three books.


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Will wonders never cease???

To be Republican is to lie.

or they never had one

quote:

Most non-fundie straight men I know, once they get over the ick factor, are either indifferent to or supportive of gay men's rights. The Prada shoes brigade, however ...


http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/06/antigay-is-the-new-gay.html