Here's a YouTube clip of Mike Huckabee talking about all this - confirming my gut feeling that, set aside politics, Huckabee is basically a pretty decent kind of a man.

...I'm gonna be probably the only conservative in America who's gonna say something like this, but I'm just tellin' you — we've gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie, you have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant...