With the Supreme Court expected to issue a ruling on same-sex marriage in the next several days, the reactionary right-wing GOP 2016 candidates like Mike Huckabee are looking to reverse everything President Obama has done on same-sex marriage at the federal level.
He said that if elected president, he would simply ignore any Supreme Court decision in favor of marriage equality until Congress passed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide…which he would then veto.
“Until the Congress of the United States puts on my desk a bill that basically defies the laws of Nature and Nature’s God and defies the longstanding tradition of marriage, the federal government will not recognize same-sex marriage because there is no law that requires it and that would be true for the military and it would be true for all federal institutions,” Huckabee said. “If the Congress decides that they want to pass enabling legislation, they could put it on my desk and I would veto it, and they can attempt to override it. That’s the process.”
Huckabee said that even his detractors should sympathize with his anti-gay-marriage stance: “If liberals were subjected to a conservative court that forced them to tithe their income to scripture or forced them to go to church or forced them to believe something that they don’t want to believe, they would say, ‘We can’t do that, that would go against our conscience.’ And I would say, ‘You are exactly right and we can’t have such a ruling. This is why I find this very unsettling is because liberals will rue the day when the sword they use to enact their agenda is the sword of the court rather than to do it by way of the people’s elected representatives.”
Understand that any Republican candidate in 2016 is going to be under tremendous pressure to do this on day one. Huckabee will brag about being willing to do it, and the bigoted Republican base will demand it from anyone they nominate.
Democrats are running in 2016 to make America a better place. Republicans are running to punish liberals and the people who voted for Obama.
But tell me again how there's no difference in the two parties, and that you will make things better by not voting.
“If liberals were subjected to a conservative court that forced them to
ReplyDeletetithe their income to scripture or forced them to go to church or forced
them to believe something that they don’t want to believe, they would
say, ‘We can’t do that, that would go against our conscience.’"
This liberal would say, "We won't do that because it is blatantly unconstitutional."