Distilling the Argument

I was reading about this Huckabee guy that stormed the Republican caucus in Iowa and the article I was reading quoted him extensively before addressing his issues. Note, here, that I am not very political, so I didn't know what any of his stances might be... or even really what particular stances would matter this time.

So I was reading along and thinking, this guy seems real nice. Seems like he's pretty level headed and interested more in getting stuff done than pulling strings to make things happen. Then I got to some of his stances and blanched.

Here is the link to his issues, if you'd like to look:
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/?FuseAction=Issues.Home

I find more and more I am socially liberal. The one that gets me is the constitutional amendment defining marriage as one man and one woman. The issue of same sex marriages can be simplified, without fear of oversimplification, to a single question.

Do you support love or would you deny love?

Perhaps your stance is not that there should be no binding between same sex couples, but there should be some other institution because such things might impugn the sanctity of marriage. Are you so unsure of your own capacity to love and remain true that two people you have never met will somehow break your will? Will you be ashamed of yourself when they read 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 at your wedding and say that "Love is not jealous" but you felt there somehow wasn't enough to go around that you might share it with same sex couples?

Perhaps your argument doesn't attempt to hide religious underpinnings and you simply attest that homosexuality is an abomination in the eyes of god, and why would you be allowed the privilege of marriage when last night you spit in god's face? I'll take from the same passage and say that "there are three things that last forever: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of them all is love."

What now? In the very instruction manual to salvation you are directed to abandon faith in the name of love. Or maybe you will just have a different reading at your ceremony and forget this whole inconvenient little blog