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Mike Huckabee Says Gays Caused Newtown Shooting & Mental Health Problems Are Really Sins!

Posted by Priscilla 0.60pc on December 28, 2012 · Flag

In the bizarro, alternate reality of the religious right, any American tragedy is caused by a wrathful god who is angry about American tolerance (such as it is) of gays. 9/11? Jerry Falwell blamed it on the gays! Katrina? John Hagee blamed it on the gays! And now that yet another mentally disturbed young American psychopath has used personal weapons of mass destruction to efficiently kill school children and their teachers, the religious right is blaming it on - no, not on American gun culture and the easy availability of weapons for those with mental health issues -  but godless Americans and - wait for it - gays. As we know, Mike Huckabee is reluctant to discuss the role of guns and mental health in this tragedy, but he has been doing a lot of whining about godless Americans whom he also blamed for the Aurora shooting. And he has also "joined the looney gays caused Newtown" bandwagon. Are we suprised?

Huckabee's article, "My Fox Show Monologue," was another attempt to clarify his comment that the shooting was caused by God having been "removed from the schools." Because poor Huck got a lot of flack for that comment, he later explained that he wasn't talking about school prayer; but, rather, the alleged removal of Christianity from public life. In his article, Huckabee again whined about the "backlash" to his comment about "the horrific shooting in CT of school children and teachers couldn’t be blamed on God because we’ve systematically marginalized God out of our culture by removing Him from all aspects of the public square." He accused his critics of "total ignorance" of what he said and then blamed liberals, who "abhor censorship of their own profanities...," for the criticism. (He didn't mention that Peter Wehner, of the conservative "Commentary" magazine, found him "flippant and offensive."

He claimed that he drew no correlation between the event and taking prayer out of schools or "silencing Christmas Carols" and if he did that would be "simplistic." But then he went into "the cause and effect we see in the dramatic changes of what our children are capable of." Thus began the litany of what Huckabee sees as the real cause of the real massacre caused by real guns fired by somebody who might have had a real mental health disorder. Among other things that he links to the shooting he says, "We dismiss the notion of natural law and the notion that there are moral absolutes and seemed amazed when some kids make it their own morality to kill innocent children. We diminish and even hold in contempt the natural family of a father and mother creating and then responsibly raising the next generation and then express dismay that kids feel no real connection to their families or even the concept of a family."

After railing about how we're no longer teaching kids about his wrathful god, Huckabee claims that these godless, heathen parents also teach that "any outrageous behaviors are not sin, but disorders for which we should be excused and accommodated."

Only in the bizarro, alternate reality of Mike Huckabee are those who support non "natural" gay marriage mocking traditional families. Meanwhile, in the real world, those who support gay marriage simply want gays to have same rights, including the right to have a family, as do heterosexual couples. Adam Lanza and other school shooters came from traditional families. They didn't have gay parents who, according to recent data, "are as likely as heterosexual parents to provide supportive and healthy environments for their children." Only in the bizarro, alternate (and medieval) reality of Mike Huckabee is mental illness considered a "sin." Right, exorcisms on the mentally ill are the way to go. Who needs trained therapists and behavioral science?

In addition to being a passenger in the conservative, crazy clown car of the right who blame secular society for the Newtown shooting, Mike Huckabee has less than six degrees of separation from the Westboro Baptist Church who proudly proclaim that "God hates fags." Ya think!


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carterfan commented 2012-12-30 03:37:52 -0500 · Flag
fact:gays have higher levels in education have higher credit scores have higher income levels and are arrested and convicted less often…but in huck’s view we are to believe they should shoulder a disproportional weight of the world’s woes. no matter what the topic is he’ll play the fear-hate card and blame gays and liberals….there again playing perfectly to the low information and i.q. crowd which is the fox news audience
carterfan commented 2012-12-29 13:27:18 -0500 · Flag
what truly amazzes me is these bible thumpers like huck can study just one book and become experts on all matters of social behavior, science, and self-promotion…well i’ll give the last one.
Robert Urban commented 2012-12-28 19:30:15 -0500 · Flag
You have to have an open mind people.
Had these children embraced Christianity, at least 7 of them, the boys of course, would have cut school and been in the Vestry of their local churches getting sodomized by their pastors instead of being shot by a crazed lunatic.

As offensive as my post may be, it pales in comparison to the Huckabee statement. It was just meant to show how that religion does not spare anybody from harm, and in most cases, causes it.

And, as I just looked up the names of these poor children for my offensive post. For the first time I was made aware that 13 of the children were young girls.
My condolences to ALL the families and friends of these lost innocents. And I apologize, as an American and HUMAN BEING, that these pundit assholes are using a tragedy, that only you can understand the depths of, as a way of promoting their agenda and self serving rhetoric.
If there IS a God? He has a special place in mind for @ssholes such as Huckabee.
Sara Knight commented 2012-12-28 19:29:54 -0500 · Flag
Oh, my goodness. I am ashamed to live in the state that elected Huckabee as governor.

I feel so sad that “Christianity” has received such a bad name from people like him, Westboro Baptist, Terry Jones, and many others who seem to be on the fringe. Christianity these days seems to be as divided as politics, from the extremely conservative to the intensely liberal.

The Christianity I grew up with and now practice (as best I can) is inclusive. I was taught that love, not judgment, is the way to believe and indeed also behave. This includes the gays (LGBTQ if you prefer), the “evangelical Christians” such as Huckabee, and everyone who is “different” from me. Judgment doesn’t belong to me or to anyone else on earth.

I can’t understand why that is so hard, but apparently it is.
mlp ! commented 2012-12-28 17:30:14 -0500 · Flag
Who gave their god the right to kill innocents just because he (their god could never be a ‘she’) is pissed at some other demographic. I could understand this god more if he at least had honest wrath. If he’s pissed at the gays, or liberals or the non-believers, smite them. But instead, their god is imagined in the same chicken-shit mold as those who flaunt his ‘love’.
This sick bastard allows children to be slaughtered and then says we didn’t love him enough?
Fuck them and their god…get us a god with courage and common sense and maybe we’ll listen to you, Huck.
Just maybe.
bob woods commented 2012-12-28 16:54:49 -0500 · Flag
It used to be that you knew someone was losing the argument when they started comparing their enemies to Nazis, but now you know they have no argument when its the Gays fault! Anderson Cooper, its all down to you , me and Gandalf!
mj - the same one commented 2012-12-28 16:19:11 -0500 · Flag
“Gays caused Newtown shooting” . . .

“Forty-five beers caused the arsonist to torch a mosque” . . .

Rightwingnut “personal responsibility” in action . . .

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truman commented 2012-12-28 15:49:23 -0500 · Flag
Gomer the Huckster is a hatemonger who tries to hide his true character behind the thin veneer of a good-old-boy country preacher. It ain’t working.
Kevin Koster commented 2012-12-28 14:54:23 -0500 · Flag
Huckabee is vamping. He got caught saying something truly offensive but he doesn’t want to just apologize and move on. Thus, we will continue to hear these defensive explanations rather than humble remorse.
Priscilla commented 2012-12-28 14:28:28 -0500 · Flag
Correction made per redsquyrl’s comment. We should be honored that we have such a master of perfection monitoring our every word. Perhaps he would like to submit a writing sample for our perusal?
Lakeview Greg commented 2012-12-28 13:58:13 -0500 · Flag
Huck thinks you can get diseases from being around gay people. I can think of no other reason for him to refuse to meet with same-sex couples and their children for dinner. The offer has been made more than once, each time Huck invents an excuse.

That is pretty much all there is to Huck. Not much.
Anonymous commented 2012-12-28 13:45:42 -0500 · Flag
Huckabee wrote:
“In other words, I would never say that simply taking prayer and Bible reading from our institutions or silencing Christmas carols is the direct cause of a mass murder. That would be ludicrous and simplistic.”
You wrote:
‘He claimed that he drew no correlation between taking prayer out of schools and “silencing Christmas Carols” and if he did that would be “simplistic.”’
Poor and hasty writing, Priscilla.
Average American Patriot commented 2012-12-28 13:07:57 -0500 · Flag
Aigooooo…

Stop frying that damned squirrel!

But unfortunately for the rest of us who are not fans of fried squirrel, there are others who like it fried, re-fried, maybe with bits of charred fur.

There are people who responded to Paster Squirrel in a civil manner. God bless them. But there are many other comments supporting him, and I suppose Squirrel reads HIS OWN SHITE, er, site and his fan’s praise.

I am speechless.

The only thing I can say is, – Yes, they are Fox gNOpig Propaganda consumers.

One last thing. Paster Fried Squirrel is also playing victim. Like Billdo, Hannity, Glenn Beck, Limpo… on and on.
Rusty Yates commented 2012-12-28 13:02:24 -0500 · Flag
When god says “The gays made me do it.” You know you have a worthless god.
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doors17 commented 2012-12-28 12:27:42 -0500 · Flag
Let’s not forget in 2000 then Gov. Huckabee gave Marurice Clemons who had a 95 year prison sentence commuted and then in 2009 Clemons shot and killed four Seattle police officers before taking his own life.

Does Huckabee blame gays for that?
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