Mike Huckabee Shows Why He’S An Absolute Jerk With Response To Appointment Of First Gay Army Secreta

[Purveyor]

More than two decades of experience working on military policy, serving as chief of staff under Defense Secretary Ash Carter at the Pentagon and serving as the undersecretary for the Air Force are apparently not sufficient enough accomplishments to prevent Republican presidential candidates from demeaning your promotion to Secretary of the Army if you are gay.

On Friday, President Obama announced the historic appointment of Eric Fanning to become the first openly gay civilian secretary of any branch of the military. Fanning was described by Defense Secretary Ash Carter as “one of our country’s most knowledgeable, dedicated, and experienced public servants,” but that did not stop former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee from denouncing Fanning’s appointment as pandering to “America’s homosexuals.”

“Homosexuality is not a job qualification,” the right-wing candidate wrote on Facebook following Fanning’s appointment, denouncing “social experiments” in the military. As the Washington Post notes, the Obama administration has six openly gay ambassadors; a gay man serving as the first special envoy to promote global LGBT rights; five transgender men and women who have served in federal agencies, and a full-time transgender staffer in the White House.

http://www.salon.com/2015/09/21/mike_huckabee_shows_why_hes_an_absolute_jerk_with_response_to_appointment_of_first_gay_army_secretary/

[valerief]

1. Huckabee is human excrement. nt

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

2. You're way too kind

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[valerief]

3. You're right. He's human Round-up. nt

[randys1]

4. I tell ya, what these fucks need is a good public shaming.

Personally I think guys like this need to be slapped, in the face, in public on live television.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Huckabee has said even worse, and for years. It's nice that people are noticing now but it's been

over 20 years since he first called for relocation camps for people with HIV and those 'at risk'.

[Fuddnik]

6. In Huckleberrys world, Homophobia is a job qualification.

[sakabatou]

7. Yup

[closeupready]

8. Oh look, another day, another opinion about gay sex from "100% straight" Mike Huckabee.

[KG]

9. just pissing into the wind, the world is moving on.

[spanone]

10. i think mikey doth protest too much....what is he afraid of?

he's an american shit-stain