To Huckabee, women are second-class citizens

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has been under a lot of scrutiny lately, since his poll numbers have shot up.

Sure, at first glance, Huckabee seems personable and likeable.

Then you look at his record.

It was bad enough when we learned earlier this month that Huckabee, in his early days as Governor of Arkansas, played a key role in setting free a rapist who was supposed to serve many more years.

According to the LA Times:

After being released, [Wayne] DuMond moved to Missouri, where less than a year later he suffocated the mother of three in a Kansas City suburb. Police suspect that he killed another woman there as well.

The plot thickens when we learned that DuMond's original victim was a distant cousin of Bill Clinton, who was Governor at the time the crime was committed. (And the conspiracy theorists go wild.)

Yes, that was bad enough.

But now I just stumbled upon a recent Associated Press article that sheds some light on how Huckabee feels about women:

Republican Mike Huckabee's record on women's rights is coming under increased scrutiny, including his endorsement of the Southern Baptist Convention's stance that women should "submit graciously" to their husbands and his opposition to sending women into combat.

So women must "submit graciously" to their husbands. The husband is the boss. The woman is the slave.

And it gets worse. The same article goes on to tell us that Huckabee has faced questions before over his support of the marriage statement, with a rival in his 1998 re-election campaign citing the statement and accusing Huckabee of opposing equal pay for women.

According to Wikipedia, Huckabee has a daughter, Sarah. I wonder what Sarah thinks about all this.