Earlier today I noted that Mike Huckabee seemingly has no problem associating himself with fringe right-wing and Religious Right activists, regardless of how radical they may be.
Now Sarah Posner brings to our attention another connection that I had not realized: Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan.
As Sam Stein reports, Glenn is targeting Democratic state House candidate Toni Sessoms with robocalls that use the word “homosexual” ten times:
Liberal Democratic lawyer and openly homosexual statehouse candidate Toni Sessoms, doesn’t share our values. Michiganliberal.com boasts that Sessoms is ‘independently wealthy, and if elected would become the first openly lesbian state representative.’ Sessoms is endorsed by the homosexual newspaper in Detroit, by Detroit’s homosexual equality Michigan PAC and by the Michigan Democratic Party homosexual and transgender caucus. Sessom’s campaign manager is the openly homosexual Central Michigan University faculty member who lost the statehouse race two years ago. Her deputy campaign manager was co-president of CMU’s homosexual student group — an openly homosexual candidate with a campaign run by homosexual activists. But, of course, in a district where voters strongly supported the marriage protection amendment none of this is disclosed on Toni Sessom’s campaign material. With homosexual activists in the Michigan Democratic Party pushing to repeal our marriage amendment, our families deserve a state representative we can trust shares our values. Not a candidate with a hidden agenda, homosexual activist agenda, not Toni Sessoms.
Posner notes that Huckabee and Glenn have a long history and points to this video in which Huckabee positvely gushes about the work being done by Glenn and the AFA Michigan:
The following year, Huckabee provided a videotaped speech to Glenn’s group’s annual fundraiser, in which he called Glenn “a very special friend. . . one of the stalwart, key people who absolutely has not flinched or wavered in his commitment to pro-life and pro-family values.” He continued, “If we had leaders like Gary Glenn across America, our work wouldn’t be so hard. . . . [they] have been committed to maintaining a solid course for truth.”
