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  <updated>2008-08-07T15:56:35-05:00</updated>
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    <title>Values Voter Summit: Huckabee Feints at Positive Message But Shoots Far to the Right</title>
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    <published>2006-09-22T12:56:51-05:00</published>
    <updated>2008-08-07T15:56:35-05:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Ezra</name>
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    <category term="Anti-Gay" />
    <category term="Mike Huckabee" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>When Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) spoke at the Values Voter Summit, directly following a morning during which speakers from Gov. Mitt Romney (R) of Massachusetts to Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/09/values_voter_su_2.html">James Dobson</a> and Tony Perkins hammered away at their opposition to the "homosexual agenda," abortion, and embryonic stem-cell research, the potential presidential candidate tried to accentuate the positive. Listing off policy achievements and the concerns of the common man, he scolded the audience to be "pro-life" after, not just before, birth. And he worried about the image of the Religious Right as being too negative.</p>
<p>"We need to be known for what we're for, not just what we're against," Huckabee said. As an example, he gave his opposition to same-sex marriage. He asserted that, instead, he is merely in favor of "traditional marriage," and:</p>
<blockquote><p>Until Moses comes down from Brokeback Mountain with two stone tablets saying we've changed the rules, let's keep it like it is!</p></blockquote>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>When Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) spoke at the Values Voter Summit, directly following a morning during which speakers from Gov. Mitt Romney (R) of Massachusetts to Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/09/values_voter_su_2.html">James Dobson</a> and Tony Perkins hammered away at their opposition to the "homosexual agenda," abortion, and embryonic stem-cell research, the potential presidential candidate tried to accentuate the positive. Listing off policy achievements and the concerns of the common man, he scolded the audience to be "pro-life" after, not just before, birth. And he worried about the image of the Religious Right as being too negative.</p>
<p>"We need to be known for what we're for, not just what we're against," Huckabee said. As an example, he gave his opposition to same-sex marriage. He asserted that, instead, he is merely in favor of "traditional marriage," and:</p>
<blockquote><p>Until Moses comes down from Brokeback Mountain with two stone tablets saying we've changed the rules, let's keep it like it is!</p></blockquote>
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