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In this Dec. 20, 2009 file photo, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks in Omaha, Neb. Huckabee, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, says the effort to allow gays and lesbians to marry is comparable to legalizing incest, polygamy and drug use.

By NATASHA METZLER, Associated Press Writer Natasha Metzler, Associated Press Writer  – Tue Apr 13, 7:05 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Mike Huckabee, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, says the effort to allow gays and lesbians to marry is comparable to legalizing incest, polygamy and drug use.

Huckabee also told college journalists last week that gay couples should not be permitted to adopt. "Children are not puppies," he said.

Huckabee visited The College of New Jersey in Ewing, N.J., last Wednesday to speak to the Student Government Association. He also was interviewed by a campus news magazine, The Perspective, which published an article on Friday.

Huckabee told the interviewer that not every group's interests deserve to be accommodated, if their lifestyle is outside of what he called "the ideal."

"That would be like saying, well there's there are a lot of people who like to use drugs so let's go ahead and accommodate those who want to use drugs. There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them. There are people who believe in polygamy, should we accommodate them?" he said, according to a transcript of the interview.

The 2008 presidential hopeful and former Arkansas governor also said that deciding which lifestyles should be accommodated and which ones should not creates a slippery slope.

"Why do you get to choose that two men are OK but one man and three women aren't OK?" he asked.

Huckabee added that his goal isn't to tell others how to live, but that the burden of proving that a gay marriage can be successful rests with the activists in favor of changing the law.

"I don't have to prove that marriage is a man and a woman in a relationship for life," he said. "They have to prove that two men can have an equally definable relationship called marriage, and somehow that that can mean the same thing."

Since the magazine published the interview, Huckabee's remarks have attracted considerable attention on the Web.

In a statement Tuesday, Huckabee said that while he believes what people do in their private lives is their business, "I do not believe we should change the traditional definition of marriage." He also said he thought the college magazine was sensationalizing his "well-known and hardly unusual views of same-sex marriage."

In response to a 1992 questionnaire from The Associated Press, Huckabee, then a Senate candidate in Arkansas, spelled out his opposition to homosexuality, saying it was crucial that the country not "legitimize immorality."

"I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle," he wrote, in response to a question about gays in the military.

He also advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, saying it was necessary to confine "carriers of this plague."

As governor, Huckabee supported an Arkansas policy that prevented same-sex couples from serving as foster parents. On gay marriage, he said in an interview, "Marriage has historically never meant anything other than a man and a woman. It has never meant two men, two women, a man and his pet, or a man and a whole herd of pets."

Desperation has now taken over the Vatican. We are living in time when it is truly a possibility to see the Catholic Church collapse under the scandals it has created and fostered.

We all evolve and finally become the man that we were meant to be. Sometimes the journey can be very enlightening. My evolution to leatherbear was a wild ride indeed!!

I wondered if you would move this pic ~ good job!! Now it is home !!!

Targeting: Bridget Leininger (CNN Publicity), Karen Zuker (Producer, CNN Newsroom) and Kyra Phillips (Anchor, CNN Newsroom)
Started by: Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation

On Tuesday April 6 GLAAD contacted CNN with strong concerns following a highly problematic morning segment aired on CNN Newsroom.

In an attempt to discuss efforts to repeal an outdated law in California requiring the State Department of Mental Health to conduct research into the "causes" and "cures" of being gay, CNN's took the irresponsible step of allowing the unlicensed, widely discredited, so-called "ex-gay" activist Richard Cohen onto the network's airwaves to promote the idea that gay people can be turned straight. CNN Host Kyra Phillips paired Cohen with California Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal to discuss the matter. Lowenthal is working to repeal the archaic California Law. Phillips began the conversation by asking this highly offensive question: "Homosexuality, Is it a problem in need of a cure?"

While the segment tried to give the appearance of "balance," the airtime afforded the disreputable Cohen to tout "healing" gay people, coupled with a lack of information about the harms caused by such practices is unacceptable. As GLAAD has noted in our publication, Unmasking So-Called Ex-Gay Activists, "The nation's leading medical and mental health authorities have uniformly dismissed the idea that being gay is something to be 'treated.'  hXXp://www.glaad.org/Page.aspx?pid=419

But even with this information widely available to media professionals, CNN's Phillips failed to bring this to light while questioning Cohen. CNN's graphics even described Cohen as a "Psychotherapist, educator and expert in the field of sexual reorientation." Phillips and CNN also failed to note that Cohen was permanently expelled in 2002 from the American Counseling Association, for multiple violations of the ethical code.

After extensive conversations with CNN producers and publicity representatives yesterday afternoon and following our blog and twitter action, CNN called GLAAD in the evening, telling us they had received numerous complaints about the segment and inviting us to appear on this morning's broadcast with Kyra Phillips to discuss our concerns. GLAAD then scheduled a representative to go on CNN but received a phone call from the network at 7 A.M. today telling us they had decided to cancel the segment. They also issued this statement:

"By bringing this story to the fore, we engage various advocates from
all sides. This story does not end here and CNN will continue to explore
other views and positions." -CNN

Just like the segment itself, CNN's statement misses the mark and provides no explanation for its actions. GLAAD urges you to help us hold the network accountable.

Send an email to CNN below:

Please contact CNN and voice your concerns about the platform extended to Richard Cohen and CNN's failure to consult credible scientific authorities before proceeding with this coverage. Call on CNN to directly and publicly address these issues with its viewers and ensure that such a serious lapse in CNN's standards will not occur again.

Contacts:

Kyra Phillips
Anchor, CNN Newsroom
[email protected]
(404) 827-1500

Karen Zuker
Producer, CNN Newsroom
[email protected]
(404) 827-1500

Bridget Leininger
CNN Publicity
[email protected]
(404) 827-1500

See GLAAD's website for more information.

Petition Text
CNN Should Be Accountable For Its Segment Featuring So-Called "Ex-Gay" Activist Richard Cohen

Dear CNN,

I am writing today to voice deep concern about your decision to afford airtime to the unlicensed, widely discredited, so-called "ex-gay" activist Richard Cohen to promote the idea that gay people can be turned straight. CNN Newsroom's April 6 segment on this topic fell far below journalistic standards.

The nation's leading medical and mental health authorities have uniformly dismissed the idea that being gay is something to be '"treated." CNN's report failed to provide this vital information and neglected to mention the concrete harms caused by such practices.

CNN Anchor Kyra Phillips began the conversation by asking an offensive question: "Homosexuality, Is it a problem in need of a cure?" CNN's graphics even described Cohen as a "Psychotherapist, educator and expert in the field of sexual reorientation." Phillips and CNN also failed to note that Cohen was permanently expelled in 2002 from the American Counseling Association, for multiple violations of the ethical code.

CNN should know better than to extend a platform to the discredited Richard Cohen and fail to consult credible scientific authorities before proceeding with this coverage. I call on CNN to directly and publicly address these issues with its viewers and ensure that such a serious lapse in CNN's standards will not occur again.

[Your name]

I edited this letter for spelling and grammar ~ please use this letter or as a template to create your own letter and if possible flood the CNN call center with your comments. We must fight the good fight and stay ever vigilant.

@COLT:

Is the first photo real?

Yes it is for real!!! I found that pic on a member submitted pics site

This sounds absolutely delish ~ and I have always hated those "soupy with mayonnaise" versions store bought or home made. This is now on to "to do list" and will make this soon.

Looks like someone dropped the soap.  >:D

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  No surprise at all and that is truly the hardest part to deal with    But when the people do not care to vote and lobbyist's have crooked politicians and judges to pay off ….....

And they call us Fags….... I wonder sometimes what must happen in the showers after the game.