Mike Huckabee says the Bible is “eternal and unchanging,” but his own views are like the weather.
Mike Huckabee issued a warning to potential protestors in Ferguson, Missouri today: Don’t be like the white supremacists who fought racial desecration with violence and murder. “Some of the protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, remind me of historic figures. But not the ones they think…,” the ordained Southern Baptist minister and former Republican governor of Arkansas wrote in a blog post on his website. Â
Huckabee, praising the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., opined that there are few who remember those white supremacists and racists who broke the law and used violence and murder to intimidate.
“The real heroes of racial justice were peaceful protesters like the Rev. Martin Luther King,” Huckabee wrote. “Today, every town has a street named after him. You don’t see any monuments to Bull Connor or the killers of Medgar Evers.”
Bull Connor was the Birmingham, Alabama Commissioner of Public Safety who ordered the use of violence – including police dogs and fire hoses – to intimidate and fight African Americans protesting Jim Crow and unjust segregation laws.
Huckabee, a religious conservative and likely 2016 GOP presidential candidate, added, “I’m old enough to have seen this mob justice mindset before — from lynch mobs who didn’t like the legal process, so they took the law into their own hands.”
Ironically, Huckabee’s hypocrisy allows him to actually believe in taking the law into his own hands, and he advocates for it as well, as long as it’s for a cause he supports.
In June, speaking at the National Organization For Marriage’s march against same-sex marriage, Huckabee told the attendees, “We are under an obligation to obey God and the law, and if necessary, to defy an institution that is out of control.”
And there, too, he used Dr. King’s words to support his own.
“One may well ask, ‘How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?’ King had written. ‘The answer is found in the fact that there are two types of laws: there are just laws, and there are unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ‘An unjust law is no law at all.'”
In other words, breaking the law if you don’t support it is Biblical, as long as it’s a law Mike Huckabee doesn’t support either, like same-sex marriage. But protesting a possible grand jury decision that does not indict officer Darren Wilson…?
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