Mike Huckabee Advises MLK-Like Resistance to SCOTUS Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

Mike Huckabee has a dream, and it’s for states to resist the recent Supreme Court ruling that legalizes same-sex marriage. Huckabee even compared the resistance to Martin Luther King’s civil rights struggle, the Huffington Post reports.

“I don’t think a lot of pastors and Christian schools are going to have a choice but to resist,” Huckabee said on ABC’s This Week on Sunday. “They either are going to follow God, their conscience and what they truly believe is what the scripture teaches them, or they will follow civil law.”

“They will go the path of Dr. Martin Luther King, who in his brilliant essay the ‘Letters from a Birmingham Jail’ reminded us, based on what St. Augustine said, that an unjust law is no law at all,” he continued. “And I do think that we’re going to see a lot of pastors who will have to make this tough decision.”

George Stephanopoulos, host of This Week, pressed Huckabee to explain what he meant and clarify whether he was calling for civil disobedience.

Huckabee then explained that he expected to see legal clerks refuse to issue same-sex marriage certificates and that they shouldn’t be expected to do so. The 2016 GOP Presidential hopeful also said to expect backlash from Christian business owners, university presidents, and school administrators.

“I’m not sure that every governor and every attorney general should just say, ‘Well, it’s the law of the land because there’s no enabling legislation,'” Huckabee said. “For the states who have a constitutional amendment that affirms marriage, as has been affirmed by the courts for 135 years since the ratification of the 14th Amendment, right up through the first time we’ve seen same-sex marriage enacted by any state, which was Massachusetts, in many states you have overwhelming majorities of the people who voted to say that they believe marriage is between a man and a woman.”

Huckabee isn’t the only GOP presidential candidate who isn’t thrilled about the Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling. Former Texas governor Rick Perry also criticized the ruling but didn’t suggest a next step.

“These decisions need to be made in the states,” said Perry, who noted that his states’ rights plank extends even to Colorado legalizing recreational marijuana in defiance of federal drug law.

Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin said he would advocate a constitutional amendment that would allow states to continue to ban same-sex marriage.

“No one wants to live in a country where the government coerces people to act in opposition to their conscience,” he said. “We will continue to fight for the freedoms of all Americans.”

Mike Huckabee seems to have forgotten the part where MLK said that people should be judged on the “content of their character.”

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