Mike Huckabee once again is attacking marriage for same-sex couples and the Supreme Court’s marriage ruling.
Mike Huckabee is still attacking the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which found same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage. The 2016 Republican presidential candidate insists that a law should be passed before same-sex couple be allowed to marry. He also insists that accepting the Court’s decision is surrendering to tyranny.
Asked what a “President Huckabee” would do in his first 100 days in response to same-sex marriage, the former Arkansas governor launched into a lengthy speech.
“When people say the train left the station, it’s the law of the land, there’s nothing we can do, let’s move on. I want to say, ‘Have you guys read the Constitution, did you pass 9th grade civics?’,'” Huckabee told CBN’s David Brody.
“The court can’t make law. We pretend that it can and I’m convinced that a lot of people give that sort of response because they don’t want to have to deal with the complexities of the constitution, which says that there are checks and balances.”
“If we surrender to the judicial branch as if it is the last, final and ultimate word, then we have surrendered to judicial tyranny which is what Jefferson warned us about and the reason that he rejected some Supreme Court arguments as simply being something he couldn’t accept and he didn’t…as did Jackson, as did Lincoln.”
“This notion that the Supreme Court ruled it and therefore it’s the law of the land bypasses the only entity in our government that can make the law of the land: the legislative branch, and it’s not even law until the president signs it and agrees to enforce it. And first of all, a president, if he’s not going to uphold that part of the constitution, get out of the race because you’re going to be lying when you take the oath and say you’ll uphold and defend the constitution because on its face, you’re not defending it, neither are you upholding it when you surrender to the god of judicial supremacy so we’ve got to start there and I certainly would start there.”
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Image: Screenshot via David Brody/YouTube
Hat tip and transcript: Right Wing Watch
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