Thursday, December 15, 2011
Mike Huckabee Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Huckabee
Posted by Max Brantley on Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:04 PM
Just when you're thinking how reasonable Mike Huckabee is capable of being, the other, darker Huck emerges and you remember all the reasons that his presidential candidacy, on balance, would be a very bad thing.
He goes to Michigan to raise money for Republican Senate candidate Gary Glenn, an old Huck pal.
Glenn, in his capacity as head of the American Family Association of Michigan, has been a vicious anti-gay activist, saying companies should not to hire gays on the grounds that "individuals who engage in homosexual behavior given all of its severe medical consequences [do not] constitute the best and the brightest."Glenn has also openly advocated the criminalization of homosexuality:
Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, has added his voice to a growing course of American leaders calling for the re-criminalization of homosexuality in the U.S.In an e-mail to Michigan Messenger, here’s how Glenn responded when asked if he supported the criminalization move proposed by the Family Research Council’s Peter Sprigg’s comments last week on Hardball:
“The short answer to your question is yes, we believe that states should be free to regulate and prohibit behavior that’s a violation of community standards and a proven threat to public health and safety — including, as most of the United States did throughout its history, homosexual behavior.”
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Comments (6)
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Max,
A lot of people don't know that Gary Glenn and many members of the American Family Association of Michigan come down on weekends to walk the protest line at our swell new electricity plant at McNab. They're modestly and fully-clothed, of course.
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Make up your minds RightWingers!
Either regulate everything or regulate nothing!
Corporations can foul everyone's water and air but people can't pick their roommates?
I think the reverse is more consistant for a free country.
Everyone wants to put the other guy in jail for something. If it's not stupidity, it's meanness or greed. How about just a good knot on the head for not minding your own business.
I'm hoping all the Republicans kill each other off and Ron Paul is the only one left standing. If they're going to run a boob it might as well be a libertarian.
Uh, is it time for Mike to be worried?
This thread, as I post, has been up for 16 hours and generated only four -- count 'em, Razorbabies! -- four responses.
Cue "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." The olden days are dead and gone.
Now. About your TV show post-election . . . .
Time to touch base with Trifecta?
Just so the huckster won't begin to feel slighted, I will post this here since we STILL don't have an early morning open line for the early risers.
An interesting factoid about M. Teresa. Apparently her life was one long dark night of the soul. According to her journals, which I have not read so I'm relying on another's reporting, she never overcame her radical doubt about her "faith". She never got past doubting the truth of it.
I have an M.T. miracle to suggest to those who are in the canonization business. It's an effing miracle that all of her volunteers did not die of Hep C or one of the other dread diseases her "dying like angels" wards often carried. She would not allow modern conveniences like washers and dryers in her facilities. Her rationale was that those things created a barrier to bonding between volunteers and the dying. All laundry had to be done by hand. I suspect she ran up against public health laws in the U.S.A., but India is a de-regulators paradise so she could get away with it there.
RIP, Chris.
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