Huckabee talks about gay marriage 'ick factor,' jokes about Pelosi affair

In a long New Yorker profile assessing his 2012 chances, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee explained his opposition to gay marriage: "We can get into the ick factor, but the fact is two men in a relationship, two women in a relationship, biologically, that doesn't work the same." But Huckabee was not above joking about the issue:

At times, he seems unable to resist the force of his own funniness. I joked with him once that I would write about his (fictitious) affair with Nancy Pelosi. He e-mailed back, "The only thing worse than a torrid affair with sweet, sweet Nancy would be a torrid affair with Helen Thomas. If those were my only options, I'd probably be FOR same-sex marriage!"

Huckabee earlier this year compared gay marriage to incest and polygamy.

Read the whole profile here.