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Huckabee Faces Rosie on Gay Adoption


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Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee went head-to-head with Rosie O'Donnell on the comedian's radio show Saturday.

Huckabee angered some when he likened gay and lesbian couples adopting children to the adoption of puppies in an interview with the student newspaper at the College of New Jersey earlier this month.

"What I'm saying is that I think the ideal environment for children is in a relationship that has both a mother and a father," he told O'Donnell, according to theNew York Daily News.

However, O'Donnell said, "there are half a million kids in foster care in America. To have public officials deem homosexuals unworthy of parenting is disastrous for the nation, for equality, and for humanity, and Mike, for Christianity."

O'Donnell also talked about raising her own children.

"I've spent my life, Mike, dedicated to taking care of the children that other people don't want," O'Donnell said.

Huckabee added that he had a "great respect for [her] choices" and that her "children are very fortunate."

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Reader Comments
  • Name: George Earl
    Date posted: 5/1/2010 9:14:01 PM
    Hometown: New York

    Comment:

    "Normal Christian family" should be redefined. Are you aware of how big a percentage of these "normal" families do not last more than a few years--if that? No, by making male-female promises in front of an alter doen't necessarily mean that the marriage that will commence as of that date will mature any better than a gay one. And do bear in mind that the majority of illegitmate children that are being born come from "straight" people. People not insightful enough to realize that a huge percentage of the life ahead of them (soically, financially, morally) will depend on just how they put into affect what you the responder deems "ideal." Why not tell us how long you've been "normally" married, if you have children, and what you're suppoedly teaching them via your own examples. Don't be scared. Write in. Right now.

  • Name: rhonda
    Date posted: 4/30/2010 4:02:30 PM
    Hometown: tehachapi

    Comment:

    rosie needs to accept the fact that a normal, christian homelife includes one mother, one father and children....gay couples trying to raise a child do not have the environment most healthy for that child....god made man & woman different for a reason...

  • Name: Javier
    Date posted: 4/26/2010 8:38:55 PM
    Hometown: Houston

    Comment:

    Rosie did an amazing job.

  • Name: Nathan
    Date posted: 4/26/2010 10:22:24 AM
    Hometown: Oakland Park

    Comment:

    What a christian liar. If he actually had respect for her choices, he wouldn't try to block her right to make them. Any of you gay uncle toms thinking of leaving christianity yet?

  • Name: Jack
    Date posted: 4/25/2010 8:56:13 PM
    Hometown: Miami

    Comment:

    Mike Huckabee recently tried to put one over on the citizens and the student reporters at a college newspaper. Huckabee obviously was talking frankly about his attitude about the gay community. When he read his comments in print, he tried to take away the harshness of the tone and claim that they had been taken out of context. Huckabee tried to "re-write history." But the student press obviously had the tape; he was proven wrong; and Huckabee should be seen as a fool. And remember that Huckabee is the idiot who let that dangerous guy out of prison early. The convict then came to the Tacoma, Wash. area, and shot and killed four cops. Huckabee danced all around that one too, so he would not need to take responsibility. I no longer see Huckabee as a credible Presidential candidate. He is a dishonest slime ball. The best he can do is go on Danciing with the Stars.

  • Name: d
    Date posted: 4/25/2010 8:34:00 PM
    Hometown: raleigh

    Comment:

    Didn't Huckabee's son beat a dog to death? Then he later fired the officer who wouldn't help him avoid penalties to his son!Nice parenting straight "says he's a Christian" man.

  • Name: Samuel
    Date posted: 4/25/2010 7:56:40 PM
    Hometown: Denver

    Comment:

    Huckabee has chosen a lifestyle of morbid obesity. Isn't that a tremendous risk to his children because he has chosen a shorter lifespan? How could an adult 'Christian' man consciously choose to abandon his kids like that?

  • Name: Tricia C.
    Date posted: 4/25/2010 7:51:14 PM
    Hometown: Omaha, NE

    Comment:

    So, if we diagram this: gay adoption > foster care or some Romanian orphanage, but < ideal family of straight Christian marriage (but which didn't (consistently) adopt the kids). Got it.

  • Name: Davya
    Date posted: 4/25/2010 6:44:02 PM
    Hometown: Wynnewood, PA

    Comment:

    What a pathetic little man. Either you submit to true Christianity, which posits a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, or you impose your Fundamentalist values onto the rest of us. Either you agree in creating a strong family (in which case you would support the structures in gay families that have proven nurture, health, and success by practically all qualified family researchers) or you admit to the fact that you simply have a deep rooted hatred for homosexuals. If you want to be a racist DO IT. At least then you'll be honest. You can't have popular extremists and common-sense americans on the same side, Mr. Huckabee, make a damn decision.



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