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(46,333 posts)
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 02:57 PM Nov 2015

Mike Huckabee is claiming ignorance about "kill the gays" preacher...

That means either Huckabee is a complete idiot, or a stinking liar.

My money is on both.

Huckabee Claimed Ignorance About 'Kill The Gays' Pastor's Extremist Views

Submitted by Miranda Blue on Thursday, 11/12/2015 1:36 pm

In a press gaggle at last weekend’s National Religious Liberties Conference in Iowa, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee dismissed concerns about the extremism of its organizer, Kevin Swanson, telling a reporter that he didn’t “have any knowledge” that Swanson backs the death penalty for homosexuality. Indiana broadcaster Joyce Oglesby ran audio of the interaction on her radio program on Friday. An unnamed reporter asked Huckabee, apparently directly after his speech to the conference, about “reports that there are a few pastors speaking her today that say that if you’re homosexual, you should be prosecuted, you should actually be killed.” “Obviously, I don’t agree with that,” Huckabee responded. “I don’t think anyone’s ever accused me of saying that. And I don’t know, did anyone say that from this stage today?” The reporter responded that while nobody had said such things from the stage yet that day, the organizer and other speakers had previously made such remarks. “I can’t go with ‘there are some reports that,’” Huckabee responded. “Give me a specific, give me something to react to, that won’t work for me, because I don’t have any knowledge of that. All I know is what I said, I can’t be responsible for what anybody else said on that stage, and apparently nobody said that on that stage.” If Huckabee had stuck around just a few minutes after his speech, he would have heard Swanson saying exactly that, bellowing to the audience that the biblically ordained punishment for homosexuality is death. If he had stuck around until the next day of the conference, he would have heard Swanson return to the theme, saying that he doesn’t want the government to impose the death penalty for homosexuality quite yet because he wants to give the culture time to change and gays time to repent before imposing his version of biblical law. And if Huckabee or anybody on his staff had bothered to do any basic research before agreeing to attend the conference, these statements would not have come as a surprise. One of Huckabee’s fellow GOP candidates — likely Ben Carson — reportedly dropped out of the conference after we reported on Swanson’s extremist views. Likewise, People For the American Way called on Huckabee and his fellow candidates Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal to drop out of the summit a full week before it started, citing Swanson’s long history of extremism, including his defense of the death penalty for gay people. As the Cato Institute’s David Boaz writes today, showing up at Swanson’s conference showed “appalling judgment” on the part of Huckabee, Cruz and Jindal. It seems that after this weekend’s conference, there are plenty of specific reports available for Huckabee to react to. He should be asked to explain himself.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/huckabee-claimed-ignorance-about-kill-gays-pastors-extremist-views#sthash.XJz6Tw4W.dpuf

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Mike Huckabee is claiming ignorance about "kill the gays" preacher... (Original Post) Archae Nov 2015 OP
Liar. moondust Nov 2015 #1
My opinion is "stinking liar." tabasco Nov 2015 #2
Republican is synonymous with "stinking liar." TexasProgresive Nov 2015 #5
He doesn't have to "claim" ignorance about anything tularetom Nov 2015 #3
This mythology Nov 2015 #7
Huckabee is truly an awful human being rurallib Nov 2015 #8
Liar...and why didnt you leave when you HEARD the guy say it right then? randys1 Nov 2015 #4
Stinking liar. Rex Nov 2015 #6
Best reply... deathrind Nov 2015 #9
Huckabee is full of shit no matter how you look at it. Initech Nov 2015 #10
Ever here of this one, asshole? world wide wally Nov 2015 #11
Let's play the usual game: What if a Democrat said this? gratuitous Nov 2015 #12
well, he's overqualified to claiming ignorance. spanone Nov 2015 #13

moondust

(19,990 posts)
1. Liar.
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 03:08 PM
Nov 2015

Kevin Swanson didn't suddenly appear out of nowhere a week ago. Do the Huckster, Cruz, Jindal and their staffs not have access to Google?

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
3. He doesn't have to "claim" ignorance about anything
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 03:10 PM
Nov 2015

Ignorance oozes from every pore on the mans body.

In the dictionary, next to "ignorance"......

rurallib

(62,420 posts)
8. Huckabee is truly an awful human being
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 03:32 PM
Nov 2015

as are most all republican candidates and their followers.
Yet even in that crowd, Huckabee stands out for his vileness.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
6. Stinking liar.
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 03:23 PM
Nov 2015

And a POS as a human being overall. He's just mad, because Foxnews (the MASTERS of the GOP) kept him at the kiddie table...AGAIN!

Initech

(100,080 posts)
10. Huckabee is full of shit no matter how you look at it.
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 03:58 PM
Nov 2015

There's a reason why extremists like him will never be president.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
12. Let's play the usual game: What if a Democrat said this?
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 04:53 PM
Nov 2015

Would a Democrat get a pass for claiming (feigning) ignorance about attending a conference hosted by a man with such out-of-the-mainstream, lunatic pronouncements?

While I could hardly care less that Huckabee and Jindal attended Swanson's hatefest, Cruz is getting a lot of positive media attention right now, and even got to be in the last Republican debate. Is Cruz getting buttonholed about this?

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