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Mike Huckabee, who vows to block the Supreme Courts ruling on marriage equality if he becomes president, is urging state governors to do the same, telling Iowa talk radio host Jan Mickelson on Friday that if he were still the governor of Arkansas he would respect the courts decision but would not implement it.
He urged governors to order county clerks to refuse to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples until such time as the people have spoken and affirmed the courts decision. He added that this is a defining moment for people in public office: Were going to find out how many of them really believe in the balance of powers and the separation of powers and how many just decided theyre going to wave the white flag of surrender.
Huckabee went on to tell Mickelson that the Supreme Courts marriage decision actually violates the First Amendment by telling marriage equality opponents that you cant believe that anymore and put it in practice. This is going to be about religious liberty, its not going to be about same-sex marriage, he said. A lot of people will try to make it about same-sex marriage, but its a bigger issue because, Jan, if the Supreme Court can tell people what the limitations of their beliefs and practices are, then the Supreme Court has just now decided that it can govern all of our liberties.
Huckabee also argued that its only a matter of time and not long away before the court legalized polygamy, for which he said a stronger case can be made than same-sex marriage: - See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/huckabee-urges-governors-defy-supreme-court-marriage-ruling-says-marriage-equality-violates-#sthash.cFc0D0U4.dpuf
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)And wtf does "respecting" a court decision mean if one is not going to implement it? Guy needs to learn what some basic words mean. Words like, "you lose."
ETA: I do agree that a stronger case can be made for polygamy, at least for a Biblical scholar (ahem), since that is actually a traditional Biblical marriage
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)we decide to use, and implement? If we get to IGNORE an interpretation, I say that perhaps there's something in the 2nd Amendment we could ignore.
atreides1
(16,079 posts)After all Huckabee and other Xtians have constantly cherry picked which parts of the Bible they choose to follow...this is in keeping with their "sincere religious beliefs", the beliefs that they choose to be sincere about!
I'll bet Huckster couldn't tell us the last time he helped to feed the hungry or visited a prisoner?
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)so they don't even realize how stupid it is because they've already been doing it for so long.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)so many years after he called for quarantine camps for people with HIV, which he did in 1992 long after the virus and methods of transmission had been identified, years after even Ronald Reagan said in public that HIV could not spread via casual contact, Huck wanted relocation camps. This hateful moron defended those comments in 2012.
He's just an ignorant bigot, a shill for snake oil, always has been and always will be.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)I never heard him jump on the court about the Citizen United ruling nor when the court voted for Bush
I guess he only cares if they agree with him
spanone
(135,844 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,392 posts)like Scalia has.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)I would have expected this from Michele Bachman.
onenote
(42,714 posts)Stupid seems to be the modus operandi of pretty much all of the Repub candidates.