Mike Huckabee has unveiled what President Huckabee would do “on Day One” in response to same-sex marriage, and it’s not only frightening, but probably unconstitutional.
President Mike Huckabee on “Day One” will “will use the power of the presidency to protect and defend people of all faiths in all fifty states.”
That will be President Huckabee’s focus during his tenure in the White House, according to the former Arkansas Republican governor, and 2016 presidential candidate. Those images above are from Huckabee’s Facebook page. The one on the right is his new “profile picture.”
“First, I will sign religious liberty executive orders that support traditional marriage and protect businesses, churches, non-profits, schools and universities, hospitals, and other organizations from discrimination, intimidation, civil penalties, or criminal attacks for exercising their religious beliefs,” Huckabee, a 59-year ordained southern Baptist minister in a new Fox News op-ed says.
“Second, I will direct the attorney general to protect religious liberty and prosecute any violations of First Amendment rights of individuals, businesses, religious organizations, institutions, and civil servants, including those who believe in traditional marriage,” Huckabee, detailing what his presidency will look like, adds.
“The Justice Department will protect and defend the rights of American citizens to follow their religious convictions without discrimination, and prosecute attacks on people of faith and their religious liberty,” he promises, adding, “I will aggressively prosecute attacks against people of faith as hate crimes.”
Of course, this is the same Mike Huckabee who has attacked President Barack Obama for his legal use of executive orders, promising an unconstitutional use of executive orders.
“I will use executive orders and the power of the presidency to protect and defend the Constitution–especially religious liberty, which is the heart of the First Amendment,” he says, forgetting that the First Amendment works both ways, and for all Americans, including people whose beliefs are different from Mike Huckabee’s.
The former Arkansas governor thinks this will bring back American “values,” but in reality it will more likely take America back – to the time of the Inquisition, where disagreement with the Church was cause for imprisonment, or death.
“I will direct the Secretary of Defense to support military chaplains as well as servicemen and servicewomen who actively exercise their faith and not force them to participate in ceremonies they find objectionable on religious grounds. I will defend people of faith in every branch of our military. People of faith will not be punished for serving their country and sacrificing to keep us free,” even if it turns America into the theocracy Huckabee craves.
“I will not acquiesce to an imperial court any more than our Founders acquiesced to an imperial British monarch,” he says, of the Supreme Court and last week’s marriage ruling. “Under our Constitution, the court cannot write a law, and the executive is a co-equal branch of government that has a responsibility to protect and defend the Constitution.”
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Images via Mike Huckabee’s Facebook page
Hat tip: Talking Points Memo