Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee
has repeated the claim that gay parenting is a dangerous “social
experiment.”
Last year, the possible 2012 GOP
nominee for president stirred up controversy when he said that he
disagreed with gay parenting because children “are not puppies.”
“We should act in the best interest
of the children, not in the seeming interest of the adults,” he
told The Perspective, a publication of the College of New
Jersey, then added, “Children are not puppies. This is not a time
to see if we can experiment and find out, how does this work?”
In A Simple Government, a new
book released last week, Huckabee repeated the claim.
“I believe that we're in denial about
potential problems as we see more and more homosexual couples raising
families,” he wrote. “Essentially, these are experiments to see
how well children will fare in such same-sex households. It will be
years before we know whether or not our little guinea pigs turn out
to be good at marriage and parenthood.”