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Huckabee And Bush Square Off On Kim Davis Controversy
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who took time out of his campaign schedule to support a Kentucky official jailed for refusing to issue gay marriage licenses, defended his position on religious liberty during Wednesday debate.
Huckabee waits to speak at #GOPDebate: “I would certainly love to get in on this” http://t.co/lwgjOWrUQ0 pic.twitter.com/Fax2eGRTYt
— The Hill (@thehill) September 17, 2015
At its root, the Supreme Court ruling that made same-sex marriage legal nationwide was unconstitutional, Huckabee asserted.
“They can interpret one, they can review one,” he said, but Supreme Court justices are not constitutionally permitted to create a law.
He said the ruling has been allowed to stand with little opposition “because the court just decided that something was going to be and people relinquished, and two branches of government sat silently.”
Giving the Supreme Court the power to dictate the nation’s laws, he asserted, would end in judicial tyranny.
Furthermore, Huckabee said that America should be a nation that allows citizens to live according to their conscience.
“We made accommodations for the Fort Hood shooter to let him grow a beard,” Huckabee said, noting similar accommodations were made for detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
“You’re telling me that you cannot make an accommodation for an elected Democrat county clerk from Rowan County, Ky.?”
Moderator Jake Tapper suggested that candidate Jeb Bush would disagree with Huckabee’s assessment, noting Bush declared Davis had an obligation to perform her duties. Bush distanced himself from the statement, though, declaring that “there needs to be accommodations for someone acting on their faith.”
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/huckabee-and-bush-square-off-on-kim-davis-controversy/
