guess who ---‘I Don’t Know’ If People Are ‘Born’ Gay, But It’s A ‘Choice’ To Act Gay

[rodeodance]

http://thinkprogress.org/

Huckabee: ‘I Don’t Know’ If People Are ‘Born’ Gay, But It’s A ‘Choice’ To Act Gay

On NBC’s Meet The Press this morning, host Tim Russert asked former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee if he believed “people are born gay or choose to be gay?” “I don’t know whether people are born that way,” responded Huckabee, “but one thing I know, that the behavior one practices is a choice.”

Huckabee conceded that “people who are gay say that they’re born that way,” but added that he believed that “how we behave and how we carry out that behavior” is more important. Watch it:

[flvegan]

1. Fuck that bigot.

"Act gay" indeed.

[LostinVA]

7. Hey -- he's right

I'm getting ready to go act gay with my wife in about 30 minutes.

[HughBeaumont]

10. See, you tell him that and he's going to demand photos.

Man.

[LostinVA]

15. We DO have a brand-new SLR digital camera

With a huge amount of memory.....

[Aristus]

38. Okay, you tell me that,

and I'M going to demand photos! B-)

:evilgrin:

[flvegan]

12. That ain't acting, that's BEING.

And yeah, like HB said...pics?

[LostinVA]

16. Wait, let me ask Haruka.... "No."

[flvegan]

17. This is one of those

"no means yes" things, right?

Dammit.

[LostinVA]

23. Let me ask here

Sorry, I have to go now.

[HughBeaumont]

26. Haw. You got burnt. Again.

If it makes you feel any better, I'm not getting any this New Years .

:(

[Starbucks Anarchist]

30. I'm glad I installed that hidden camera in your house.

Aw, shit. :banghead:

[Solly Mack]

2. what an idiot

[Fleshdancer]

3. guess who ---'I don't know' if people are 'born' ignorant asshole douchbags, but

it's a 'choice' to act like ignorant asshole douchbags. --Gloria Smith 12/30/2007

[Ikonoklast]

4. It does beg the question, though.

Was Mike Huckabee born an ignorant asshole, or does he just behave like one?

Even money says both.

[Guaranteed]

42. No, it doesn't. It RAISES the question.

http://www.fallacyfiles.org/begquest.html

[dorkulon]

5. Loathsome Huck...

47. Mike Huckabee

Charges: What's worse, a calculating politician pretending to be a devout Christian, or a genuine heartland preacher who didn't come from no monkey? Huckabee is both -- a Southern Baptist who rejects Darwin, wants to give everyone a gun and thinks people with AIDS should be quarantined, and a seedy, corrupt politician who's never seen a payoff so low he won't stoop to pick it up. Democrats see Huckabee as easily defeated in a general election, but they shouldn't be so sure -- Smooth talking preachers tend to do well in this country. Huckabee is well-spoken, kind-faced, and the opposite of wordly -- he's Obama for hicks.

Exhibit A: "I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives... I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ."

Sentence: Just as he's about to win the GOP nomination, a freak gust of wind catches Huckabee's excess skin and carries him out over the Atlantic, where he drifts for hours before God appears to him, tells him He's a Unitarian, and sends him to hell.

http://buffalobeast.com/122/50mostloathsome2007.html

[Faygo Kid]

6. Wait a minute - I think Doris Day was a great singer, but I'm straight. Am I in trouble here?

Would President Huckabee jail me for "behaving gay?"

What about my prediliction for watching HGTV? Geez, I'm in deep shit. So are you, for your "behavior."

G'bye, Mike. Talk to your son about hanging dogs and taking handguns through carry-ons at the airport, then come after the rest of us.

[ColbertWatcher]

8. The only way to really know...

...We at wikiality.com have developed a chart to assist you in determining your possible gayness: http://wikiality.com/The_DeGeneres_Paradox">here.

[Faygo Kid]

20. Now that's science at its finest.

Bottom line is, I also think Judy Garland could sing, and that I think Wonder Woman was hot. Am I doomed to chains under a Huckabee administration?

Been watching football all week though, and at 56, few people give a damn which way I lean at this point, and that usually includes me. Hach-tooie, pass gas and gimme the Sports section.

[magellan]

9. I wish Huckabee would choose to stop practicing breathing. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

11. All suggestions accepted...

Sounds like I have some work ahead of me...if anyone has any suggestions for "gay Huckabee pictures" made up, just post 'em in a reply...

[msongs]

13. umm if born gay is that not GOD'S WILL mr hucksterbee??? nt

[MadMaddie]

14. I wonder if being an ignorant idiot Fuckabee is a choice?

Just askin......this guy is one for the stone ages.

[Disturbed]

21. Everyone that is Gay should not act like they are Gay?

Uhh....WTF is this guy blabbering about?

He doesn't know if people are born Gay. Of course he would say that. Otherwise, how would he explain this Intelligent Design nonsense?

[MadMaddie]

24. That's just it they can't explain Intelligent Design...

made up shit...

This guy would make "The Handmaids Tale", look like a picnic.

This guy is more dangerous than any other Rethuglican.

[alfredo]

18. Let me paraphrase that

‘I Don’t Know’ If People Are ‘Born’ assholes, But It’s A ‘Choice’ To Act like an asshole.

[knitter4democracy]

19. If they have to choose to not act gay, then he has to choose to stop acting hetero.

It's only fair, especially since he's supposed to love his neighbor as himself.

For crying out loud, that argument is crap. Being gay doesn't mean someone's got to be celibate for life. Sheesh!

[krispos42]

27. I'd like to see Hucklebee act gay in public

Give him the Elton John treatment. Purple, rhinestones, wings, eyeglassses, some high-intensity spotlights, a piano...

It'll be a spectacle!!!!

[baldguy]

22. People aren't born evil batshit insane.

But it's a "choice" to act that way.

[krispos42]

25. "I don't mind gay people, as long as they act straight in public"

Essentially. Or perhaps, "No gay PDAs".

<sigh>

[AnnieBW]

34. Okay

I'm putting on my Birkenstocks and plaid flannel shirt, then heading over to Home Depot to buy some power tools. :D

[krispos42]

37. Sounds like a plan

I call shotgun!

[melody]

28. I don't know if people are born stupid, but it's a choice to act stupid n/t

[King Coal]

31. Born to be wild, born to be gay. Turn the tables and force Huckabee to screw Mitt.

[melody]

35. Thanks, KC, for loading me with that image

:puke:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

29. What an asshole.

I find it very troubling that solid, proven science is still not good enough for a PRESIDENTIAL candidate. :wtf:

[silverojo]

32. I don't know if people are born homophobic

But it's certainly a choice to ACT homophobic. :grr:

[AnnieBW]

33. I saw a little bit of Huckabible on MTP

When he was talking about punishing doctors who perform abortions. He scares me.

[Kurovski]

36. I was gonna say "Liberace from the grave", but Huckabee is a good fit as well.

[yardwork]

39. Yeah, so what?

I absolutely choose to "act gay," whatever the hell that means. I absolutely choose to live openly as a lesbian. I'm out at work, at home, everywhere. That's my choice.

My other choices would be to (a) "Act gay" in secret and "pretend to be straight" in public. That's a real "family value," that is - pretending to be someone I'm not. :eyes:

Or I could (b) Never "act gay" at all but just stuff my feelings way down deep and go around living a miserable repressed life. I guess that Huckleberry Hound would like that - he seems to like the idea of people suffering for no particular reason.

Personally, I think I might "act gay" more than ever just to celebrate my utter and total queerness! I'm going to kick up my gay heels. Yee-ha!

[IndianaJones]

40. wow...seems to be a lot of outrage about what Huckabee said. nt.

[Guaranteed]

44. Well, what he said about behavior is true, but the implication

is that there is something wrong with behaving like that. Russert should have followed up on that.

[begin_within]

41. All behavior is a choice. Everything you do, all day long, is a result of your choices.

I have to agree with Huckabee on that one point. We are constantly making choices and everything we do is a result of hundreds, even thousands, of decisions we make all day long, whether consciuosly or unconsciously.

[sendero]

46. So gay people..

... should simply deny themselves one of life's most intense needs, that for physical love?

Bullshit.

[begin_within]

48. I never said that.

You're putting words into my mouth and I never made any such statement. Every action undertaken by every person, of any sexual orientation, anywhere in the world, is a result of a decision made by that person, whether they realize it or not. I agree with that general principle, but that's all I agree with Huckabee on. I'm not extending it to make any judgement of anyone's behavior, whatsoever. I'm just agreeing with the fact that all of our actions are results of choices we make. Period.

[sendero]

50. Even that statement..

... is utter bullshit, you clearly know nothing about the human mind.

[begin_within]

55. Baloney

Every action you take from the moment you wake up until you fall asleep at night is the result of a choice you make, whether you realize it or not.

[Guaranteed]

43. And then Russert should have followed with, well, is there something

WRONG with choosing to act out one's homosexual feelings?

[jmm]

45. I don't know if people are born straight

but why don't the Huckabee's of the world make the "choice" to act gay then let us know if their sexual orientation was a choice?

[Mad_Dem_X]

47. What an ass.

God, I am just so sick of him and his ilk. Fuckin' morons and bigots, the lot of them.

[Skittles]

49. isn't it amazing?

where do they f***ing come from?

[ecstatic]

51. Well if we don't fall in line, this is who we'll end up with

Time to support ALL of our candidates!

[WinkyDink]

52. *Tap, tap, tap....* Spoken like a man who thinks he's found the Answer to Life because

he managed to lose a lot of weight.

[FredScuttle]

53. Obama just asked Huckabee if he's available to headline his next S.C. campaign event

n/t

[NorthernSpy]

54. religion is a choice, but we don't permit discrimination against believers...

... even if they insist on wearing religious jewellery and praying during coffee breaks.


:shrug:

[and-justice-for-all]

56. Works both ways asshole...

‘I Don’t Know’ If People Are ‘Born’ BIGOTS, But It’s A ‘Choice’ To Act like a BIGOT.'

Yes, I was born this way. I knew I was different in the 6th grade and this is not a learned behavior, I tried having girl friends and it just did not work nor did it feel right.

I dont mined striaght people as long as they act Gay in public.