Having previously expressed a desire to align the country's values with "God's standards," to the delight of anti-gay pundit Tony Perkins, Huckabee stresses the "sanctity of life" and the desire to officially adopt the "traditional" definition of marriage on a national level.

"States," says Huckabee, "are enacting laws that, in fact, really create a confusion about whether same-sex marriage is legal or not."

He goes on to call the "human life amendment" a "defining issue for our civilization and culture."

"Are we going to be a culture of life," Huckabee asks, "or a culture of death?" Americans should recognize the intrinsic worth of each human life, he continues. Invoking Abraham Lincoln, he concludes: "If taking an innocent human life is not wrong, then maybe nothing is wrong."

The following clip was broadcast on CNN's American Morning on Monday, February 4, 2008.