Huckabee: I Still Believe PWAs Should Be Isolated

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee yesterday refused to recant his 1992 call for AIDS patients to be quarantined, saying "I still believe this today, that we were acting more out of political correctness. I don't run from it, I don't recant it."

In 1992, Huckabee said, "It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents."

Yesterday Huckabee that he had not been calling for a quarantine, but could not state how "isolation" could otherwise be achieved. Huckabee's 1992 Associated Press questionnaire also says that he finds homosexuality "an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle."