by Katie Andriulli

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The Perspective, a Campus Progress-supported publication at the College of New Jersey, interviewed Governor Mike Huckabee recently when he visited campus. In the interview, Huckabee discusses many controversial topics, including health care reform and the recent travails of RNC Chairman Michael Steele. But Huckabee’s comments on gay marriage, wherein he likens it to incest and polygamy, have proved to be the most incendiary:

“You don’t go ahead and accommodate every behavioral pattern that is against the ideal,” he said of same-sex marriage. “That would be like saying, well, there are a lot of people who like to use drugs, so let’s go ahead and accommodate those who want to use drugs. There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them. There are people who believe in polygamy, so we should accommodate them.”

Unsurprisingly, Huckabee is now trying to distance himself from the comments, issuing a response claiming that the student reporter “grossly distorted” their conversation, and even going so far as to say that he hopes the reporter will “find a career other than journalism.” He also calls for a public release of the interview tapes. So, like good journalists do, the paper issued their own response containing the taped interview which clearly shows that the reporter represented the conversation truthfully.

Looks like it’s TCNJ Perspective 1 – Huckabee 0.

(Cross-posted at CampusProgress.org)