Mike Huckabee has never had the surest grip on reality. A conference call with conservative pastors hosted by none other than the rancid Family Research Council drove that point home hard today. Right Wing Watch
captured it for our amusement in a soundcloud.
Mike began with his usual boogity boo that marriage equality will lead to Christian pastors being thrown in the pokey for refusing to marry the gays. His rant vacillates from staunch defiance to self-pitying victimization like a nauseating seven-minute roller coaster ride.
If the courts rule that people have a civil right not only to be a homosexual but a civil right to have a homosexual marriage, then a homosexual couple coming to a pastor who believes in biblical marriage who says ‘I can’t perform that wedding’ will now be breaking the law,” he said. “It’s not just saying, ‘I’m sorry you have a preference.’ No, you will be breaking the law subject to civil for sure and possible criminal penalties for violating the law…. If you do practice biblical convictions and you carry them out and you do what you’ve been led by the spirit of God to do, your behavior will be criminal.
Getting through seven minutes of this crap took some intestinal fortitude, but when I got to the 3:57 mark of the audio recording I was glad I hung in there. Behold what Mike Huckabee thinks a Supreme Court ruling for marriage equality
really means. Does it mean that gay people will have their civil right to marry across the land protected under federal law? No siree Bob.
Getting a decision from the court, it's not tantamount to saying 'well that settles it. It's the law of the land.' And when I hear people say that I just cringe and I'm thinking 'How many people pass 9th grade civics?' This is not that complicated. There are three branches of government, not one. We don't like it if the executive branch overreaches and pretends that it can act in difference to the other two. And neither can we sit back and allow the court, one branch of government to overrule the other two. And so when a court rules that same sex marriage is okay, it doesn't mean that the next day, marriage licenses should be issued for same sex couples. It simply means that if the legislature agrees with that court decision and the representatives of the people—the elected officials—if they then put that into legislation and it is signed and enforced by the executive branch, then you have same sex marriage. But until those other two branches act, what you have is a court opinion and nothing else.
No need to fret, you homophobic worrywarts. The nasty gay people aren't
really going to get equality until the Supreme Court ruling is vetted through Congress and signed into law, as was the process when
Loving v. Virginia was decided.
And this guy wants to be the preznit.