Do I have to repeat myself now? No, it isn’t relevant to me. For the record he said this about homosexuality just recently:
I actually agree with that on all counts (although I think homosexuality is sinful and not normal, I don’t hold any value judgment in regard to it being outside the traditional man/woman marital relationship), but that’s just my personal opinion. If I was President I would separate my personal opinion from my political actions, and would always work towards what I viewed as the common good.
I think Huckabee looks at it the same way, he has said he will make it a determined effort of his Presidency to fight HIV/AIDS on a larger scale than any President has in the past. He’s committed to it, and that’s why I’d have no problem with him appointed a Surgeon General, he’s clearly capable of separating his personal feelings on homosexual from his political acts in regards to appointments.
As I understand it, it is the opposite. If they have full blown AIDS, then, in simple terms, when they get another disease, they die. Your average relatively healthy person probably has more bugs running through them.
I’m a little skeptical about the homosexuality thing being wrong and sinful. It seems to me to be a personal issue between two consenting adults and no one else (definitley not the government) need get involved.
I would be very skeptical of Huckabee being able to control his distrust/disgust of gays and give them a fair shake in society. For a man that wears his fundamentalism on his sleeve I think the plain message is that anything that is viewed as sinful or prohibited out to be viewed eventually as illegal and unlawful.
Interesting, I wonder if that was the motivation for the Cuban government implementing exactly this policy for AIDS patients? There have been persistent rumors about Raul…