Mike Huckabee Signs WCF Letter That Calls Gays 'Sexual Radicals'

[DonViejo]

By AHIZA GARCIA Published AUGUST 26, 2014, 1:53 PM EDT

Mike Huckabee signed an open letter from the World Congress of Families to the people of Australia that labeled gays as "sexual radicals."

The WCF is planning to hold an anti-gay marriage conference in Australia's parliament building on Wednesday and has met with opposition from activists, thereby prompting the letter, according to reports from BuzzFeed Australia. The WCF is based in Illinois and openly denounces gay marriage, divorce, single parents and abortion.

Huckabee himself has also been vocal in opposing gay marriage, comparing it to polygamy and likening the fight against gay marriage legislation to standing up against Hitler, per Newsweek. The letter used the phrase "sexual radicals" to describe gays and activists who have made it difficult for the WCF to organize its conference.

"Sexual radicals have launched a smear campaign to discredit the Melbourne conference, which misrepresents the international pro-family movement and the positions of the World Congress of Families."

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[Wella]

1. "Sexual radicals have launched a smear campaign..."This sounds like he's talking about the activists

only, not all GLBT.

The GOP has been, in general, going pro-marriage. They can't give in to their base much longer on it: there's too much money and too much change in American attitudes to hold on to old beliefs. Huckabee may be one of those hold-outs, but I don't think he was referring to all GLBT, just the activists. Right wingers think all liberals are "radicals." In fact, they think we're all "dirty hippies."

[NYC Liberal]

2. Those "pro-family" groups are always the ones opposing gays who want to settle down & have families...

Funny that.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. They're linked to the American Family Association - another gaggle of religious right homophobes

That are generally considered noxious, intolerant assholes, at least until they start demanding that the government censor all the pictures of naked boobs on the internet, at which point some people seem to think they magically transmogrify into brave vanguards of progressivism.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. Mike Huckabee is a wannabe demagogue and the WCF is a hate group.

[BlueJazz]

5. "leaders and activists concerned with the health of the natural family."

They should add: "And we do this by stagnating wages, no health care, no time off for the Family, anti-union, anti-choice plus a whole list of other things to "Help" the average family"