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Mike Huckabee has officially lost it

I've felt for some time that Mike Huckabee has been veering further and further to the side I like to refer to as "crazy town," but based on his most recent such comments, it appears as if the man has now officially lost it and will now be permanently residing in crazy town.

During a recent conference call with conservative pastors, organized by the uber-conservative Family Research Council, Huckabee made the following comments:

- "Christian convictions are under attack as never before. Not just in our lifetime, but ever before in the history of this great nation. We are moving rapidly towards the criminalization of Christianity."

- "If the courts rule that people have a civil right not only to be a homosexual but a civil right to have a homosexual marriage, then a homosexual couple coming to a pastor who believes in biblical marriage who says 'I can't perform that wedding' will now be breaking the law. It's not just saying, 'I'm sorry you have a preference.' No, you will be breaking the law subject to civil for sure and possible criminal penalties for violating the law.... If you do practice biblical convictions and you carry them out and you do what you've been led by the spirit of God to do, your behavior will be criminal."

It really amazes me that it seems as if these far right-wing conservative Christians focus 95% of their attention on gay marriage. Really? If gay marriage becomes legal nationwide, this will ultimately ruin Sunday sermons and Christianity? This really isn't about having a problem with others attaining equal rights as much as it's about having a problem with losing a feeling of superiority. Straight white Christian males in this country felt superior to all other demographics at one point. Then women, African-Americans (and other minorities), Muslims, Buddhists (and other creeds), and others, started fighting for and attaining equal rights, which resulted in these straight white Christian males beginning to feel progressively less special. The LGBT community then decided to get into the fighting-for-equal-rights act, and if the Supreme Court rules in their favor, straight white Christian males will tend to feel even less special. When these before-mentioned groups are granted equal rights under the law, this doesn't take away Christians' rights; it simply makes it more difficult to be a bigot or an a*shole in public. I guess if this does happen, Mike Huckabee and his ilk will just have to start following the Bible's guidelines a bit more closely - you know, that love thy neighbor bit, yes, even if they're gay...

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mike-huckabee-defends-ex-gay-therapy-warns-gay-rights-will-outlaw-christianity-god-help-us-a
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