Last week, Mike Huckabee was one of several potential GOP presidential candidates who spoke at a “family leadership regional summit” in Iowa hosted by Bob Vander Plaats and The Family Leader.
During his remarks, Huckabee said the fact that President Obama called gay football player Michael Sam is a sign that the culture in America has gone into an “utter collapse” and decried boycotts against anti-gay businesses as “economic terrorism.”
“The values that so many of us hold dear are values that are under assault today,” Huckabee said. “I never believed that in such a short period of time, the culture in America would go into utter collapse. If you told me just a few years ago that one day the President of the United States would use his precious time in the Oval Office to call people up simply to congratulate them for being gay, I would say, ‘No, surely he’ll call a veteran and thank them for their service, for losing a limb or a leg.’ But even when Chris Kyle was murdered, his widow didn’t get a phone call, but a gay football player who came out did.”
Huckabee went on to warn that religious liberty is under attack in America, citing the criticism that Chick-fil-A received several years ago after the company donated millions of dollars to anti-gay groups and the restaurant’s president said that marriage equality was “inviting God’s judgment on our nation.”
The backlash against the company, Huckabee said, was nothing short of “economic terrorism”:
