Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee acknowledged Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that there is a role in the Republican Party for people who support gay marriage.
While he admitted there is “room in the tent” for Republicans with different beliefs on the issue than his own, the pastor and potential 2016 contender said that expecting Christians to accept gay marriage is “like asking someone who’s Jewish to start serving bacon-wrapped shrimp in their deli … or like asking a Muslim to serve up something that is offensive to him, or to have dogs in his backyard.”
“We’re so sensitive to make sure we don’t offend certain religions, but then we act like Christians can’t have the convictions that they’ve had for 2,000 years,” Huckabee said. “Unless I get a new version of the scriptures, it’s not really my place to say, OK, I’m just going to evolve.”
Previously, Huckabee had signaled that if the Republican Party embraced same-sex marriage, it would lose his support.
“If the Republicans want to lose guys like me and a whole bunch of still God-fearing, Bible-believing people, go ahead and just abdicate on this issue – go ahead and say abortion doesn’t matter, either,” he said during a radio interview with the American Family Association. “At that point, you lose me. I’m gone. I’ll become an independent. I’ll start finding people that have guts to stand. I’m tired of this,” Huckabee said.
Elaborating on an excerpt from his book in which he says he has gay friends and associates, Huckabee, when pressed on whether being gay is a choice, compared sexual orientation with a lifestyle choice like drinking or swearing.









