The GOP's Southern Baptist preacher candidate, who was endorsed by Chuck Norris, is even weirder or more radical than you thought. It's probably no surprise to you that in 1992, Mike Huckabee said, "I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle."
But Huckabee's radical Republican credentials don't stop there. Even though it was common knowledge in 1992, "that AIDS could not be spread by casual contact," it was Mike Huckabee's radical view that AIDS patients should be isolated from the general population:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Mike Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased federal funding in the search for a cure and said homosexuality could "pose a dangerous public health risk."
"If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague," Huckabee wrote. "It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents."
Like every top tier Republican presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee now says he has changed his mind. The man who believes that God has chosen him to be president says he is so much wiser today.
Can we go ahead and make it official now that 'Republican' is a synonym for 'weird'?
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