Former GOP presidential candidate Mike
Huckabee on Friday questioned President Barack Obama's evolution on
gay marriage.
The 58-year-old Huckabee, also a Fox
News personality, appeared on The O'Reilly Factor to discuss
recent remarks he made in Iowa.
“I'm not homophobic,” he
told a conservative audience. “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.'”
Huckabee told guest host Laura Ingraham
that he wanted to ask Obama whether he lied in 2008 when he said he
did not support marriage equality.
“The position that I hold is the
position that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden held in
2008,” Huckabee said. “Barack Obama held it until 2012.”
“And my question that I would love to
pose to the president is this: Mr. President, please explain that
when you said in 2008 at the Saddleback Church forum that you stood
for traditional marriage and you did so because you were a Christian
and because it's what the Bible taught, please answer: Were you lying
then, are you lying now, or did the Bible get rewritten?”
“He said it was because of his
Christian convictions. Does he have them, or does he not? If one
has them, they don't change depending on what the culture does,”
Huckabee
added.
Clinton publicly announced her support
for marriage equality in 2013.
(Related: Hillary
Clinton: I support gay marriage.)