Former GOP presidential candidate Mike
Huckabee on Tuesday told a conservative crowd in Iowa that he's not
anti-gay.
“I'm not against anybody. I'm really
not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic,” Huckabee told an Iowa
Faith and Freedom Coalition audience. “I honestly don't care what
people do personally in their individual lives.”
“But … when people say, 'Why don't
you just kind of get on the right side of history?' I said, 'You've
got to understand, this for me is not about the right side or the
wrong side of history, this is the right side of the Bible. And
unless God rewrites it, edits it, sends it down with his signature on
it, it's not my book to change.' Folks, that's why I stand where I
stand,” he
added.
The 58-year-old Huckabee, a
conservative celebrity with his own Fox News show and the winner of
the 2008 Iowa Republican caucuses, is considering another bid for the
White House.
In 2012, he called on supporters to
rally behind Chick-fil-A after its CEO, Dan Cathy, was criticized for
saying that marriage equality is “inviting God's judgment on our
nation.” Cathy recently said that he would no longer speak on the
issue, angering some social conservatives who accused him of “selling
out.”
(Related: Chick-fil-A's
Dan Cathy has “sold out” gay marriage foes, Peter LaBarbera
claims.)