Mike Huckabee Expects Civil Disobedience in Response to Gay Marriage Ruling

[Eugene]

Source: ABC News

Mike Huckabee Expects Civil Disobedience in Response to Gay Marriage Ruling

Jun 28, 2015, 12:00 PM ET
By BEN GITTLESON via THIS WEEK

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee suggested Sunday that Christians opposed to the Supreme Court's ruling in favor of gay marriage will carry out civil disobedience in response to it -- and that, if elected president, he might put up a nativity on the White House lawn.

"I don't think a lot of pastors and Christian schools are going to have a choice," the a former governor of Arkansas and Baptist minister said on ABC's "This Week." "They either are going to follow God, their conscience, and what they truly believe is what the scripture teaches them or they will follow civil law."

The Supreme Court ruled Friday in a 5-4 decision that gay and lesbian couples had a constitutional right to marry.

Huckabee, who has long opposed gay marriage, said Christian business owners, university presidents and school administrators could be inspired by how Martin Luther King Jr. pushed back during the civil rights movement, and that county clerks shouldn't have to carry out the Court's decision and issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples.

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[uppityperson]

1. Inspiration by someone working FOR equality to promote inequality? Funny also how he's promoting no

separation between church and state.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I hope he run as a third party candidate to split the right of center vote./nt

[durablend]

3. Of course he expects it

Pretty sure he plans on instigating some of it.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. Legislating from the bench: bad. Legislating from the county clerk's office: good. Got it.

[MoonRiver]

5. Seriously, Mikey?

[mnhtnbb]

6. Huckabee and his kind are so ass-backwards.

MLK, Jr was fighting for INCLUSION of civil rights, which has been the same issue
with extension of marriage equality.

Huckabee and his followers want to EXCLUDE people from marriage equality just because
their particular brand of Bible thumping says so.

This ruling has NOTHING to do with restricting rights of Bible thumpers and everything
to do with extending marriage equality to all adults, without regard to religious belief.

Every single church, synagogue, mosque, still has the right to limit marriage ceremonies
to members of their particular faith since they are private organizations,
just as they did prior to the ruling.

Government, though, which issues marriage licenses can no longer discriminate between
marriage licenses for same or opposite gender couples.

Are they really this stupid? Or are they just obtuse?

[Jefferson23]

7. Throw red meat bigoted language and hope you'll get the nomination from your party.

That is all this bullshit amounts to...he is disgusting.

[MohRokTah]

8. BREAKING: In a MASSIVE show of civil disobedience, Millions of fundamentalist Christians refuse...

to get gay married.



How the fuck are they going to engage in civil disobedience over this?

[justhanginon]

9. The only county clerks that should be forced to issue

marriage licences are the ones that want to keep their f'ing jobs which salaries, by the way, are paid for by the taxpayers that are gay and straight, christian and non christian alike. Fire a few of their fundamentalist asses and they will get the message in a hurry.
And it's the law!

[msongs]

10. his god approved of slavery nt

[restorefreedom]

11. thankfully has no chance of winning the general election.

but I do worry about the business owners who are going to claim that they don't have to serve a gay wedding or even serve a gay couple, whether it's real estate or hosting a party at the restaurant whatever it is, and they're gonna claim freedom of religion. I'm pretty sure this is going to end up at the supreme Court and that they are going to rule that freedom of religion does not extend out into the arena of public commerce, and if you have a business that is open to the public, you can't pick and choose who you going to do business with. And if you're religious convictions mean that much to you, then get out of line of work that involves customer service to the public. This is no different then what happened during the civil rights struggle in the 50s and 60s. If you're in a public business, you can't choose your customers. freedom of religion means you are free to believe what you want. Is soon as you enter into the public sphere and conduct business with the public, that whole relationship changes.

[treestar]

12. How?

They can go on living the way they believe.