LGBT rights group: Huckabee campaigning on hate with transgender answerhttp://www.cnn.com/2015/08/07/politics/mike-huckabee-transgender-military-hrc/CNN/By Eugene Scott, CNN Updated 12:32 PM ET, Fri August 7, 2015
"(CNN)—The nation's largest advocacy organization for LGBT rights accused Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee of "campaigning on hate" by defending the military's ban on transgender people.
Huckabee said at the first Republican debate Thursday that the military did not need to adopt society's changing cultural norms related to transgender issues and "is not a social experiment."
"The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things," the former Arkansas governor said during the Fox News debate. "It's not to transform the culture by trying out some ideas that some people think would make us a different country and more diverse. The purpose is to protect America. I'm not sure how paying for transgender surgery for soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines makes our country safer."
