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Mike Huckabee Defends Statements Advocating Isolation of AIDS Patients
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has found himself defending statements he made 15 years ago in which he advocated the isolation of AIDS patients and insinuated that homosexuality posed a health risk to the public.
Huckabee made the statements in a questionnaire given to him by the AP while he was running for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1992. Huckabee also suggested that the federal government not fund research into the disease and that “homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle, and we now know it can pose a dangerous public health risk.”
The surging Republican candidate defended his responses from 1992 concerning AIDS in a written statement on Saturday that said,
“In the late 80’s and early 90’s we were still learning about the virus that causes AIDS. My concern, as a Senate candidate at the time, was to deal with the virus using the same public health protocols that medical science and public health professionals would use with any infectious disease. Before a disease can be cured and contained we need to know exactly how and with near certainty what level of contact transmits the disease. There was still too much confusion about HIV transmission in those early years.”
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