so let’s talk about mike huckabee a bit more, ok?
what do we have so far:
a-fat guy, loses weight, plays bass, runs for president, wins iowa, loses new hampshire
and michigan and wyoming.
b-pressures parole board to pardon a serial rapist who then goes on to rape
and murder more women after being paroled.
c-says he stands with the writers guild and then crosses picket lines
to be on jay leno’s show.
d-receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in unethical gifts while governor.
e-refuses to release transcripts of his sermons from when he was a preacher.
and now we find out that in 1998 mike huckabee signed a church
letter that stated:
“a wife is to submit herself to the servant leadership of her husband.”
as many of you might know, i’m not a woman(i’m a master at stating the obvious). so i can’t necessarily speak authoritatively
about the concerns and issues facing women in the 21st century.
but i’m working under the assumption that most american women do not
consider themselves to be servants to their husbands(or any
man, for that matter). i’m also working under the assumption that most
women would not happily subject themselves to the leadership of their
husbands, and thus occupy “servant” role in their homes.
but i’ll ask the women who might be reading this, how do you feel about mike
huckabee publicly endorsing the statement:
“a wife is to submit herself to the servant leadership of her husband.”
?
does it make you:
a-want to run out and vote for him in the hope that someday you’ll live in a country
where all women can be servants to their husbands/boyfriends/bosses/etc?
or
b-utterly fucking terrified that this right-wing nut-job is running for president and actually
being taken seriously?
-moby