Huckabee compares Ky. clerk jailing to slavery ruling in Dred Scott
Washington (CNN)Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee compared Rowan County clerk Kim Davis' refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples to conscientious objections to slavery Sunday.
Asked if Davis, who was jailed last week for refusing to issue the licenses, should be forced to obey the Supreme Court ruling on marriage, Huckabee cited the landmark Dred Scott decision.
"You obey it if it's right," Huckabee said on ABC's "This Week." "So I go back to my question. Is slavery the law of the land? Should it have been the law of the land because Dred Scott said so? Was that a correct decision? Should the courts have been irrevocably followed on that? Should Lincoln have been put in jail? Because he ignored it."
Many Republican candidates have rallied around Davis since she drew national headlines for refusing issue the licenses and asked her deputies not to comply with the high court ruling. After she was arrested, the first license was issued to a gay couple.
"Do we have a check and balance system? Do we have three equal branches or do we have one supreme branch, not just the Supreme Court? That's the fundamental question," Huckabee said.
Democrats who supported same-sex marriage rights before the Supreme Court ruling weren't jailed, Huckabee said.
"Gavin Newsom in San Francisco as mayor performed same-sex weddings even though it was illegal. Did he ever get put in jail? He most certainly did not," he said. "You have Barack Obama and Eric Holder, when he was Attorney General. They ignored the rulings of (the Defense of Marriage Act). Did they get put in jail for ignoring the law? They most certainly did not."
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who is running strong in New Hampshire polling, said he did not believe Davis should be jailed, but also said the ruling is the law. The bigger problem, he told ABC's "This Week," is that fights are turning off younger generations to Christianity.
"We have a lot of young people who sit on the fence on an issue like this. And they also think about their, you know, their belief in God," Kasich said. "And when we see these kind of battles going on I get a little bit afraid that it turns people off to the idea of faith in God, what it means to be a Christian."
' Hi, I'm Mike, and I might...orrr..might Not, authorize this message. Now, I just want to say a few things about a few things that a few people have been doing here in America. You see, I watch the news every now and then, and there's not Too much that escapes me. Wait...did That 'sound' right? 'Escapes' me...hmmm..sounds like something sneaking outta my body or something.....Ok, here, what I Mean is, nothing gets Past me. Take that County Clerk in...where ever it is, that refused to issue a drivers licen...errrr..what's That?,..oh, a marriage license, got it, to that sin filled homosexual couple. Now That's what I call a 'god fearin'' woman! There's a place being reserved in heaven for her! Glory be! You know god don't want no homo's in heaven, and if that clerk gave them a marriage license she would'a sinned, and she'd have been scratched off the 'list' when she finally reaches the Pearly Gates. She'd be sent straight to hell! So really, she just saved her butt there! Annnnd, stopped those evil people from sinning some more. Now they've gone and arrested her! Why not arrest Jesus too? He told her what to do! You know, this is just like Slavery! Next thing you know they'll put her on the auction block, and who knows where she'll wind up. Probably on some sweaty cotton plantation down in Georgia! We gotta Pray for that woman! Deliver her from evil! Outta bondage! Break her chains of Slavery! We have a President that probably has No clue what this country went through up untill 1861! No clue I tell you! Has No clue about ethnic cultures! And now here he has allowed this christian, god fearing woman, this innocent babe in the woods, be sold into bondage! We must stand 'behind' her...not Toooo close mind you..but somewhere back here behind her, and just protest like heck. Oh, did I mention that I'm runnin' for the office of President of this here United States? Ya'll come on down and vote for me, and I'll abolish Slavery pretty soon after I'm elected, just like that Other guy did. Oppps! Gotta go now, gotta adjust the antenna on my TV. Don't want to miss any hot news out there. Hey, free that woman! :/
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