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Mike Huckabee Rants Over Openly Gay Eric Fanning”s Nomination To Secretary Of The Army

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee

On Friday, President Obama nominated Eric Fanning, currently serving as acting under secretary of the Army, to be the next secretary of the Army.

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter called Fanning an “excellent choice” to lead the Army.

The appointment would make Fanning the first openly gay secretary of a U.S. military branch.

GOP White House hopeful and constant opponent of anyone/anything gay, threw a hissy fit on his Facebook page about the nomination:

“It’s clear President Obama is more interested in appeasing America’s homosexuals than honoring America’s heroes.

“Veterans suicide is out-of-control and military readiness is dangerously low, yet Obama is so obsessed with pandering to liberal interest groups he’s nominated an openly gay civilian to run the Army.

“Homosexuality is not a job qualification. The U.S. military is designed to keep Americans safe and complete combat missions, not conduct social experiments.”

What everyone else can see is this: Huckabee has it backwards – Fanning isn’t being appointed because he’s gay.  Fanning, who happens to be gay, has decades of experience at the Pentagon.

He has previously served as Chief of Staff of the Department of Defense, Acting Secretary of the Air Force, and Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy.

THAT’s why he’s being appointed to the position.

Huckabee’s animus to all things gay is getting more and more transparent.

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Mike Huckabee (Of Course) Gets Kim Davis Question At GOP Debate

In case you missed it, there was one question that touched on LGBT issues last night at the second GOP presidential debate.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee squared off against former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on the issue of rogue Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis and her refusal to follow the law and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

As part of his argument for “accommodations” for Kim Davis, Huckster pointed out that the Fort Hood shooter was allowed to grow a beard.

“We made accommodations to the Fort Hood shooter, to let him grow a beard. We made accommodations to the detainees at Gitmo. I’ve been to Gitmo and I’ve seen the accommodations that we made to the Muslim detainees who killed Americans. You’re telling me that you cannot make an accommodation for an elected Democrat county clerk from Rowan County, Kentucky? What else is it other than the criminalization of her faith and the exaltation of everyone else who might be a Fort Hood shooter or a detainee at Gitmo?”

So, he compares growing a beard – which has NO effect on anyone else’s life – with a county clerk who won’t allow two people who love each other to marry?

SRSLY?

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Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsome Schools An Erroneous Mike Huckabee

Gavin Newsome

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has a new line in his support for rogue county clerk Kim Davis.

Huckabee compares Davis to Lt. Governor Gavin Newsome of California for issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples for a short period of time back when he was Mayor of San Francisco.

Huckabee asserted on ABC’s “This Week” that Davis should obey the law “if it’s right,” comparing her decision to withhold marriage licenses to same-sex couples to Newsome’s defiance of Proposition 22.

“It is that the ruling class has thumbed their nose at the the very Constitution,” Huckabee said. “You’ve got Democrats who ignored the law when it was the law to have traditional marriage, Gavin Newsom in San Francisco as major, performed same-sex weddings even though it was illegal. Did he ever get put in jail? He most certainly did not.”

The difference, of course, is because when a court ordered Newsome to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples – he did.

The California Lt. Governor was not having any of Hucky’s trolling.

Check out Newsome’s tweets to the Huckster:

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President Obama Slaps Back At Mike Huckabee Over Iran/Israel Comments

Speaking at a press conference in Ethiopia, President Obama slapped back at current GOP presidential hopefuls who have taken to making “ridiculous” claims about his policies, and “outrageous attacks” that were unbecoming to presidential politics.

The president was asked about Mike Huckabee’s assertion yesterday that the nuclear deal currently under consideration with Iran would “take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven.”

via Mike Huckabee Twitter

Addressing the question, Obama tied Huckabee’s comments to other Republican 2016 nominees:

“The particular comments of Mr. Huckabee are just part of a general pattern we’ve seen that would be considered ridiculous if it weren’t so sad. We’ve had a sitting senator call John Kerry Pontius Pilate. We’ve had a sitting senator, who also happens to be running for president, suggest that I’m the leading state sponsor of terrorism. These are leaders in the Republican Party.”

Obama later said the comments by Huckabee might be an attempt at getting some attention for his languishing presidential campaign: “Maybe this is just an effort to push Mr. Trump out of the headlines.”

The president summed up the current political environment like this:

“The Republican Party is shocked, and yet that arises out of a culture where those kinds of outrageous attacks have become far too commonplace and get circulated nonstop through the Internet and talk radio and news outlets. And I recognize that when outrageous statements are made about me, a lot of the same people who were outraged when it’s made about Mr. McCain were pretty quiet.”

“The American people deserve better. Certainly presidential debates deserve better. In 18 months, I’m turning over the keys. I want to make sure I’m turning over the keys to somebody who’s serious about the serious problems the country faces and the world faces.”

(source)

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Mike Huckabee: Problem With Marriage Is People Think It’s About Love

GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee appeared on CNN this weekend where he espoused the notion that the problem with marriage today is that people are being selfish and marrying for love.

Asked whether same-sex marriage or high divorce rates are a bigger threat to the institution, Huckabee responded that the question was like asking which wing of an airplane is more important.

“Regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a committed relationship in which the focus is on meeting the needs of the partner,” he said. “That sense of selfishness and the redefinition of love as to something that is purely sentimental and emotional, has been destructive.”

The Huckster’s comment about both wings of a plane and asking which wing is more important is an impotent analogy. If you’re so “concerned” about marriage itself, there are far, far more heterosexual marriages failing than gay/lesbian couples marrying; estimates indicate LGBTs make up around 10% of population, so do the math. Nine times for opposite-sex marriages impacting families. If Huck is so worries about 90% of families, why isn’t he talking nine times more about divorce?

In the segment, Huckabee also comments on his recent call for term limits for Supreme Court justices, but makes it clear it’s just a vague notion he’s come up with. He has no suggestion for what the term limits would be.

The whole point of having supreme court justices serve for life is to help insulate them from the whims of politics and call the law as they see it. That’s the way the constitution was written and actually it’s a good thing. It’s one of the checks and balances that makes our country functional.

Regarding Huck’s reference of Thomas Jefferson: the man owned slaves. John Adams thought we should have a King. The personal views of the founders are interesting, but not relevant as a matter of law today.

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Mike Huckabee: I Will Prosecute Critics Of Religious Freedoms Via Executive Order

In a Fox News op-ed, GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee swears to silence critics of “religious liberty” via executive orders:

On Day One of my administration, I will use the power of the presidency to protect and defend people of all faiths in all fifty states.

First, I will sign religious liberty executive orders that support traditional marriage and protect businesses, churches, non-profits, schools and universities, hospitals, and other organizations from discrimination, intimidation, civil penalties, or criminal attacks for exercising their religious beliefs.

Second, I will direct the attorney general to protect religious liberty and prosecute any violations of First Amendment rights of individuals, businesses, religious organizations, institutions, and civil servants, including those who believe in traditional marriage.

The Justice Department will protect and defend the rights of American citizens to follow their religious convictions without discrimination, and prosecute attacks on people of faith and their religious liberty.

I will aggressively prosecute attacks against people of faith as hate crimes.

Third, I will direct the Secretary of Defense to support military chaplains as well as servicemen and servicewomen who actively exercise their faith and not force them to participate in ceremonies they find objectionable on religious grounds. I will defend people of faith in every branch of our military. People of faith will not be punished for serving their country and sacrificing to keep us free.

I will use executive orders and the power of the presidency to protect and defend the Constitution–especially religious liberty, which is the heart of the First Amendment.

Of course, first he needs to become the GOP nominee.

And then, he has to be elected president.

Which isn’t going to happen.

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Matt Baume Highlights Some Of The Worst Reactions To Marriage Equality

Matt Baume gets to the root of those who are so up in arms about LGBTs recently getting full marriage rights in the US.

(Well, “full” if you ignore what’s happening in Louisiana and Texas right now…)

Same-sex couples are getting married, and somehow the world has not yet ended.

But wait – some anti-gay politicians keep warning we’re just moments away from the collapse of civilization.

Here are some of the dumbest — and most dangerous — things they’re saying.

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Mike Huckabee Promises To Block Same-Sex Marriage Recognition (If Elected)

Mike Huckabee said on conservative radio Monday that, if elected, he would block all federal recognition of same-sex marriage:

“Until the Congress of the United States puts on my desk a bill that basically defies the laws of nature and nature’s God and defies the longstanding tradition of marriage, the federal government will not recognize same-sex marriage because there is no law that requires it and that would be true for the military and it would be true for all federal institutions. If the Congress decides that they want to pass enabling legislation, they could put it on my desk and I would veto it, and they can attempt to override it. That’s the process. If liberals were subjected to a conservative court that forced them to tithe their income to scripture or forced them to go to church or forced them to believe something that they don’t want to believe, they would say, ‘We can’t do that, that would go against our conscience.’ And I would say, ‘You are exactly right and we can’t have such a ruling.’ This is why I find this very unsettling is because liberals will rue the day when the sword they use to enact their agenda is the sword of the court rather than to do it by way of the people’s elected representatives.”

Of course, the president doesn’t have the power to block recognition of legal marriages.

Also, an analogy of “forcing” liberals to tithe isn’t a fair comparison to marriage equality because same-sex marriage rights don’t MAKE conservatives get “gay married.” Marriage equality is just something conservatives hate; but it doesn’t make them do it. Forcing someone to give money to a church against their will is unconstitutional per the First Amendment.

More puffery for the right wing nuts.

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News Round-Up: June 6, 2015

GOP presidential nominee Mike Huckabee (L) and Josh Duggar

Some news stories you may have missed:

• GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee gave a full-throated endorsement of Josh Duggar and his Duggar family when the current child molestation scandal broke. The day after the parent’s Fox News interview, the endorsement on Huckbee’s website disappeared.

• The U. S. Air Force eases their policy regarding transgender service

• 70,000 Scruff members share their Pride plans around the world. Guess which city is most excited about celebrating Pride?

• Haters petition the Olympics to revoke Caitlyn Jenner’s Olympic medals. The Olympics denies the request in succinct fashion.

• Senate Republicans vote against gay and lesbian vets’ access to spousal benefits that all other married veterans have.

• Legendary impersonator Jim Bailey passed away this week at the age of 77. Watch the clip below from an appearance on The Carol Burnett Show – what an amazing talent.