Presidential hopeful and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (R), in an interview with a college magazine, said the country shouldn’t “experiment” by allowing gay couples to adopt children.
“I think this is not about trying to create statements for people who want to change the basic fundamental definitions of family,” Huckabee told The Perspective, a magazine at The College New Jersey. “And always we should act in the best interest of the children, not in the seeming interest of the adults.”
“Children are not puppies,” he said. “This is not a time to see if we can experiment and find out, how does this work?”
Huckabee also compared gay marriage to drug use, incest and polygamy.
“You don’t go ahead and accommodate every behavioral pattern that is against the ideal,” he said. “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 who 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.”