WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI)

U.S. GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee has drawn fire from the gay community for comments the former Southern Baptist minister made about homosexuality.

In an interview with the Web site beliefnet.com, the former Arkansas governor said his positions on such things as homosexuality are not “radical.”

“I think the radical view is to say that we’re going to change the definition of marriage so that it can mean two men, two women, a man and three women, a man and a child, a man and animal,” he said in the interview, published on the Web site Wednesday. “Again, once we change the definition, the door is open to change it again.”

David Smith, vice president of programs for the Human Rights campaign, told CNN Huckabee’s comments show he is “out of the mainstream of American thought.”

“I think he’s equating a loving marriage between two people of the same sex with some form of bestiality,” Smith said. “I think that’s really out of the mainstream of American thought, and most people will find that offensive.”

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