Huckabee stands by his 1992 statement on AIDS & gays & exile

The Chicago Tribune reported that Huckabee is standing by his statement in 1992, when he advocated quarantining and exiling everyone with HIV/AIDS and call homosexuality a health risk. Link to Time Magazine Article

This past week a political insider told me how this coming out was going to be the end of Huckabee. But I argue that it will only help him with his primary. Huckabee is reaching out to the Christian Right and they will only embrace him for these statements that are based in ignorance and hate.

As a christian I find this intolerance despicable.

Here is the article from the Tribune


Huckabee stands by '92 comments on AIDS, gays
by Christi Parsons

Mike Huckabee says he stands by his statements fifteen years ago about AIDS patients, though he concedes he might phrase them differently today.

In some old candidate questionnaires the Associated Press has dug up, Huckabee suggested back then that AIDS patients should essentially be quarantined.

"Fifteen years ago, the AIDS crisis was just that. It was a crisis," Huckabee told reporters at a campaign stop in Asheville, N.C. this weekend. "There were a lot of questions back in that time as to just how the disease could be carried. There was just a real panic in this country."

Huckabee said he also stands by his words that homosexuality is sinful.

"I believe it would be, just as lying is sinful and stealing is sinful," he said.

Maybe some people were outraged by what Huckabee said, but those people didn't seem to be in attendance at his weekend campaign events in the Carolinas.

The former Southern Baptist preacher and Republican presidential candidate drew enthusiastic crowds for his message about conservative values and religious faith.