According to Mike Huckabee, the SCOTUS just legislated marriage equality rather than interpret the US Constitution. They just created same-sex marriage rights "out of thin air." And, now good conservative Christians are being hauled off to jail ... like Kim Davis. It's OUTRAGEOUS! Now, even Muslims are treated better in our country. Probably, even illegals (okay, I made that one up, but he probably would have said it if he'd thought to). We definitely treat the prisoners at Gitmo better. Why, this country is going to hell in a hand basket, and it's all because gays are getting married. It's judicial tyranny!
From NCRM:
Huckabee insisted that America should be able to find a way to accommodate the Kentucky county clerk who to this day refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and scolded America for not learning the false lesson he claims to have learned "in ninth grade civics."
"We made accommodations to the Fort Hood shooter, to let him grow a beard," Huckabee said, wrongly. "We made accommodations to the detainees at Gitmo. I’ve been to Gitmo and I’ve seen the accommodations that we made to the Muslim detainees who killed Americans," he continued, ignoring the fact that, as Slate's Mark Joseph Stern notes, those accommodations have "little real impact on anybody else."
"You’re telling me that you cannot make an accommodation for an elected Democrat county clerk from Rowan County, Kentucky? What else is it other than the criminalization of her faith and the exaltation of everyone else who might be a Fort Hood shooter or a detainee at Gitmo?," Huckabee, suggesting that Muslims are treated better than Christians, ranted.
Matt Baume gives us the rundown on what all the candidates had to say on this issue, including Huckabee.