Mike Huckabee won't be president. But liberals still need to call out his anti-LGBTQ Bible shtick.

The former governor's position only shifts the debate in a less tolerant direction

Mike Huckabee.
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I don't know if you've heard, but presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee recently made liberals mad.

Speaking with CNN's Dana Bash, Huckabee called being gay "a lifestyle," and likened that lifestyle to one of drinking or swearing — for which, I suppose, liberals and members of the LGBTQ community might be grateful, given that other leading lights of the GOP have likened non-heterosexuality to a range of much worse things. So: progress?

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Emily L. Hauser

Emily L. Hauser is a long-time commentary writer. Her work has appeared in a variety of outlets, including The Daily Beast, Haaretz, The Forward, Chicago Tribune, and The Dallas Morning News, where she has looked at a wide range of topics, from helmet laws to forgetfulness to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.