To say that Mike Huckabee is not taking the sight of happy couples being joined in wedded bliss very well is, well, an understatement, to say the least, given his poisonously homophobic views. (Personal aside; I'm of the opinion that if he could, he's round up all homosexuals and throw them into camps. He's that bad.) And the media has been giving him the opportunity to make a fool of himself over the topic, even his former employer Fox News, as this contentious interview with Megyn Kelly yesterday showed.
You'd think that experience might have made Huckabee think he should back off a bit, but no chance. Not when he has a 2016 grifting tour...I mean, presidential bid to consider and his sworn mission to oppose the "imperial court" and it's unholy, abominable decision to allow happy couple to joing together in wedded bliss. So this morning, on This Week, he opened his mouth and inserted his foot in there all nice and snug:
GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee predicted that Christians will push back against gay marriage in a similar way to Dr. Martin Luther King’s fight against racial discrimination.
Really. Do continue, Huck:
On ABC’s “This Week” Sunday, host George Stephanopoulos asked Huckabee if he would advocate for civil disobedience following Friday’s Supreme Court ruling that made same-sex marriage legal nationwide.
“I don't think a lot of pastors and Christian schools are going to have a choice. 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,” Huckabee said.
“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. And I do think that we're going to see a lot of pastors who will have to make this tough decision,” he continued.
And if they're smart, they won't follow your advice, Huck. Because, see, Martin Luther King was fighting for basic rights and decency for his people, not trying to keep happy couples from being joined in wedded bliss because you find them icky. Slight difference.
Huck's whineathon continued, reaching levels only dogs could hear:
Huckabee told Stephanopoulos that, together with the Thursday Supreme Court ruling upholding federal subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, the court has changed “process of how we govern.
“We’ve always been a nation of law,” he said. “We’re now a nation of men.”
Huckabee said the rulings were made “through a court edict of five unelected lawyers, a part of a committee, who decided that they knew better than the legislators who actually get to make law, that they know better than the people who voted in over 30 states to affirm traditional marriage,” and called it “judicial tyranny.”
Hear this, Huck? It's the world's smallest violin and it's playing just for you.
My enjoyment of Huck's whining aside, I feel duty-bound to give him this warning. If you are visited at night by the howling, angry spirit of MLK, enraged and out for vengeance because you desecrated his good name and works with this homophobic bullshit of yours, don't be surprised. ;)
Oh, and as a reminder, this is the type of sight that gets Huck's garters so twisted in a knot:
I'm sorry, but, if you have a problem with a lovely sight like that, it's you with the problem, not them.
Continue whining, Huckabee. The tears of unfathomable sadness are so tasty. ;)