Jewish National Fund of Ottawa Cancels Mike Huckabee Speech
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has one less speaking engagement on his agenda.
Amid calls for a boycott of the Jewish National Fund of Ottawa’s annual Negev Dinner over their choice of Huckabee as keynote speaker, the organization cancelled the former Arkansas governor’s speech, and announced that it would seek a less divisive replacement. The decision came shortly after Kingston resident Bruce Bursey launched a change.org petition, demanding the JNF find a different speaker for the dinner, which aims to raise funds for Autism research in Israel. Bursey accused the former Fox News host of spreading “hatefulness towards and about transgender people.”
At the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in early June, Huckabee called transgenderism a “social experiment” and mused that, had he known about transgender identity in high-school, “I’m pretty sure I would’ve found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.”
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