I don't think the issue's about being against gay marriage. It's about being for traditional marriage and articulating the reason that's important. You have to have a basic family structure. There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived. So there is a sense in which, you know, it's one thing to say if people want to live a different way, that's their business. But when you want to redefine what family means or what marriage means, then that's an issue that should require some serious and significant debate in the public square.

Ross Douthat (January 2008), "Is This Guy For Real?", GQ, quoted in Mark Sumner (6 December 2007), "Huckabee: Gay Marriage Would End Civilization", Daily Kos, retrieved on 2012-05-27