If You Arent Watching The Daily Show, Watch the Repeat...Jon's Challenging Huck on Gay Marriage.

[MadBadger]

He's really going at it in a polite way with Huckabee. I'm not good at explaining things, but its really great to see Jon going after him over this, mentioning the hyprocracy of the bible for example.

[EFerrari]

1. Yep, Jon is doing a good job. Huckkkabee is an @ss as usual. n/t

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Watching - Jon is doing an AWESOME job of it!!!

If you missed it, the repeat is on 1 am ET.

[ErinBerin84]

3. that was great!

I was pissed that the Hucker was on again, but Jon would not let him off the hook with anything.

[RichGirl]

10. Jon's no fool.

He's obviously very passionate about this issue, so how better to make his points than to have someone like Huck on.

I have the tiniest respect for Huck because he fought for the right of the children of illegal aliens to earn scholarships. Maybe Jon senses a soft spot in him.

[ErinBerin84]

12. yeah, it was good that they had an actual conversation instead of Huck just book promoting

I just can't find it in myself to have a soft spot for Huck, but he did at least try to have a conversation with Jon, even though he used the usual bullshit arguments...and Jon wouldn't let him get the last word when he was trying to more or less end the conversation on that particular topic. I also loved the "Republicans rail against big government, except when it comes to the military....so they trust the government to have big tanks, but not to pass out cheese to poor people?!"

[jasmeel]

4. I thought it was gonna be a total kiss ass job b/c Huckbee is the

"likeable repub" - he's what john mccain was in 2000. Stewart nailed him- made huck look a racist--making comparisons between racism and the anti gay agenda. Awesome!

[pettypace]

5. Huck made the point 30 states have voted against GM

30 states have had a ban on the ballot and all 30 passed the ban.

Anyone know the veracity of that statistic?

[jasmeel]

6. I think it's prob tru but thats just a guess... I don't think that's a good

argument for anything though- Huck and the RW have no real argument against gay marriage and they will never just come out and say they believe homosexuality is against god or whatever- they hide behind definition of marriage. Lame!

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. So?

Does that mean that if thirty states were to have laws disallowing civil rights for African Americans that that that fact in and of itself would justify it? That's just stupid. Personally I don't think that there is any compelling argument that favours denying equality under the law to all people regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender or sexuality. And marriage equality is just as much a part of that as any other form of equality.

[CTLawGuy]

9. Arizona rejected a ban in 2006

but may have passed one this year.

[MadBadger]

8. Kick - Its on Now

[NC_Nurse]

11. John did a great job. Huck was forced to hide behind the usual bullshit last

ditch arguments based on tradition (lame) and definition of the word marriage (which has changed and evolved MANY times
since it began. John pointed out that the bible condones polygamy as a valid form of marriage. Huck didn't have much of a
comeback for that - or anything else he said.

Personally, I think it's just a matter of time until all the "traditionalists" die off and we usher in a new era of tolerance, inclusiveness,
and REAL secular govt. Right now, the religious still have quite a hold over the public square and the actions of our govt. There time is slipping away
and I think deep down they know it.

[Hellataz]

13. He did an amazing job of getting to admit Huck's real reasons for not wanting same sex marriage

Jon ran through all huckabee's bullshit until finally (after saying this wasn't about being a homophobe or a bigot) Huck admits that he thinks it's a "chosen lifestyle" and if we allow them to get married then we'd have to look at other chosen lifestyles like the man who had 27 wives. He did go as far as to say if gays get married then what's next bestiality or incest related marriages? but he was thinking it.

He also refused to admit what Jon kept repeating, that Marriage has already been redefined several times.

But the best line of the night was Jon saying that Religion is more of a choice than being gay is.