Mike Huckabee
Video of Republican presidential candidate — and former Arkansas governor — Mike Huckabee once again describing transgender women as male pedophiles lurking in bathrooms to molest little girls has surfaced, less than two weeks after Huckabee posted on Facebook declaring his support for admitted child molester Joshua Duggar.
In the video, filmed at the 2015 National Religious Broadcasters Convention in late February, Huckabee “joked” about how he wished he could have pretended to be transgender by saying he “felt like a woman” in high school “when it came time to take showers in PE,” BuzzFeed reports. Right-wing news site World Net Daily uploaded the video to YouTube over the weekend.
In the video, which you can watch below, Huckabee said: “For those who do not think that we are under threat, simply recognize that the fact that we are now in city after city watching ordinances say that your seven-year-old daughter, if she goes into the restroom cannot be offended and you can’t be offended if she’s greeted there by a 42-year-old man who feels more like a woman than he does a man.”
Then he added: “Now I wish that someone told me that when I was in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE. I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.’ You’re laughing because it sounds so ridiculous doesn’t it?”
He also claimed there is “something inherently wrong about forcing little children to be a part of this social experiment,” adding “I’m not against anybody. I’d just like for somebody to bring their brain to work some day and not leave it on the bedstand when they show up to govern.”
Of course, while he is more than happy to make up stories about men pretending to be women so they’ll have more chances to molest little girls, Huckabee apparently still stands steadfastly behind his Arkansas buddies, the Duggar family, and their son Joshua, who admitted he molested five younger girls when he was a teenager (and yes, four of those girls were his own sisters).
“Janet and I want to affirm our support for the Duggar family,” Huckabee wrote in a May 22 post on his Facebook page (Janet is his wife). He noted that Joshua Duggar called his actions in molesting little girls “inexcusable,” but adds that inexcusable “doesn’t mean ‘unforgivable.’”
Huckabee wrote that Josh Duggar and his family “dealt with it and were honest and open about it with the victims and the authorities” — without acknowledging that the family dealt with it by not saying anything for more than a year and stonewalling all efforts by authorities to investigate until after the statute of limitations had expired.
Huckabee downplayed Joshua Duggars crimes by saying “Good people make mistakes and do regrettable and even disgusting things,” by saying that because Duggar was a teenager his “judgement [was] not mature,” and he confessed his sins and sought help.
(Joshua Duggar’s father got a police officer friend — since convicted and now serving time for possession of child pornography — to give Josh a stern talking to, and then sent him to live with a friend of the family for three months for “counseling,” which consisted of helping that family friend in his home building business.)
Huckabee concluded: “Janet and I love Jim Bob and Michelle [the Duggar family patriarch and matriarch] and their entire family. They are no more perfect a family than any family, but their Christian witness is not marred in our eyes because following Christ is not a declaration of our perfection, but of HIS perfection. It is precisely because we are all sinners that we need His grace and His forgiveness.
“We have been blessed to receive God’s love and we would do no less than to extend our love and support for our friends. In fact, it is such times as this, when real friends show up and stand up. Today, Janet and I want to show up and stand up for our friends. Let others run from them. We will run to them with our support.”
Hmm. Kind of makes you wonder whose bedstand Mike Huckabee left his brain on that day, doesn’t it.
