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Huckabee Is About To Put His Money Where His Mouth Is For Kim Davis In A BIG Way
There is a time and a place to take a stand.
For Mike Huckabee, that time and place is Tuesday afternoon in Grayson, KY, as he sponsors the “#ImWithKim Liberty Rally” at the Carter County Detention Center, where Kim Davis is being held for refusing the grant marriage licenses for same sex couples. The Rowan County, KY, clerk, has been jailed since last week.
“There comes a time when you must take a stand for your faith and this is one of those times,” Huckabee said in an e-mail to his supporters. “Let’s make sure Kim knows she is not alone. We must always defend our religious liberty and never surrender to judicial tyranny.”
“The purpose of it is to show support for Kim and also to let the world know that it is unacceptable to put a person in jail without bail because she followed her conscience. And not only that, but she followed the only law that is in front of her,” the Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas governor said in an interview Monday on “Fox & Friends.” Before the rally, Huckabee plans to meet with Davis inside the jail.
Over the weekend, Huckabee expressed strong support for Davis and compared her situation with that of Abraham Lincoln.
“Lincoln ignored the 1857 Dred Scott decision that said black people weren’t fully human,” Huckabee said Sunday. “It was a wrong decision. And to say that we have to surrender to judicial supremacy is to do what Jefferson warned against, which is in essence to surrender to judicial tyranny.”
“What I’m coming back to, and I think people are missing this, is that we live under the rule of law, which is a three-branch checks and balances system of government, or we end up with what I think was so powerful when Lincoln said this, “If the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court the instant they are made, then in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers having to that extent having practically resigned their government into the hands of this eminent tribunal,’” Huckabee said.
Davis is also the victim of highly selective prosecution, Huckabee said. He noted that when California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom was mayor of San Francisco, he issued 4,000 marriage licenses to same sex couples in defiance of what was then California law.
“Did he ever get put in jail?” Huckabee asked. “He most certainly did not.”
Huckabee will be joined by Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel (Davis’ attorneys), Tony Perkins of Family Research Council, Pastor Joshua Feuerstein, the National Organization for Marriage, Faith and Freedom Coalition, American Family Association, Faith2Action, the Benham brothers, United in Purpose, and Concerned Women for America. In addition to the rally, 170,000 Americans from across the nation have visited http://www.FreeKimDavisNow.com to sign an online petition supporting Davis.
h/t: The Washington Times
This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/huckabee-is-about-to-put-his-money-where-his-mouth-is-for-kim-davis-in-a-big-way/
