Huckabee: The Supreme Court ‘Cannot Overrule God’ On Gay Marriage

[DonViejo]

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), no stranger to mixing religion and politics, might have outdone himself on Wednesday night when he greeted the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.

"I do not come to you tonight with the ability to speak Spanish. But I do speak a common language: I speak Jesus," he said, according to CNN.

Huckabee addressed the Supreme Court, which this week listened to oral arguments in its highly anticipated hearings on gay marriage. "I respect the courts, but the Supreme Court is only that — the supreme of the courts. It is not the supreme being. It cannot overrule God," he reportedly told the audience. "When it comes to prayer, when it comes to life, and when it comes to the sanctity of marriage, the court cannot change what God has created," Huckabee added.

A favorite of the Christian conservative crowd, Huckabee also brought up the political skirmishes on recent "religious freedom" laws in Indiana and Arkansas, saying that Christianity is becoming "criminalized." The ex-governor added that someone must be ready to take on the institutions that "challenge and threaten our ability to believe as we believe."

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[stone space]

1. I don't expect the Supremes to overrule God. This is 2015.

I expect a 5-4 decision in favor of God.

(The other 4 don't live in this century.)

[Thinkingabout]

2. Here is another God died and left me in charge person. He and Michele Bachmann are not

authorized speakers for God, God can do the job, he does not need RW spokesmen.

[Nay]

3. Of course it can, you moron! We don't live in heaven, and we can make human rules

on earth, as we have done for millenia.

I am so sick of this dumb shit.

[seabeyond]

4. i hear god wrote our constitution. did god make the laws of our land, too?

[DetlefK]

5. Huckabee overruled God by eating pork.

Someone should ask him during the primaries what's the difference between a gay-marriage and eating pork. After all, both are forbidden.

And why gays are outlawed in the Bible but raping slaves is okay.

[notadmblnd]

6. No one ever questions what these morons say

That's how I know there's no such thing as God. If there were, he'd strike these arrogant assholes down for presuming to speak for him.

[yellowcanine]

7. Well the states aren't God so we are okay there, Huckles.

[bemildred]

8. That's right Mike, but they can overrule you. nt

[tridim]

9. Psst Huckster...

Like most people, Jebus thinks you're an idiot.

[onehandle]

10. You don't speak 'Jesus,' you speak Hatred.

The Bible changed over time due to translation 'drift' if not actually additions, deletions.

More importantly, Jesus appointed Peter to 'manage' the church. Essentially giving man the clerical duties of running the operation. Man and his outlook and needs change over time.

God gave us the 'keys' and the control. Things have changed significantly since the first century. Pretty sure you, never-will-be-president Huckabee, would have ended up staked and rotting in the sun, if not for Man's evolution.

[blkmusclmachine]

11. Didn't Huck's kid get busted on animal cruelty charges 2-3 times back in Arkansas???

[Lint Head]

12. By law marriage is a civil act. God has nothing to do with it.

Other than a Christian, Jewish or other religious faith blessing it with a ceremony. Blessings do not hold the force of law. Just ask any divorce attorney.

[Bluenorthwest]

13. Huckabee has been a virulent hate speaker since the 80's and his fellow Republicans past and present

are partly accountable for his continued invective, as they never bothered to speak out against him over the last couple of decades. When Huckabee first called for isolation camps for HIV patients and 'at risk' populations in 1992, Republicans lent him legitimacy by not calling him out.

[Initech]

14. Their one track minds hard at work.

I seriously wonder what goes on in the mind of a hardcore religious fundamentalist like Mike Huckabee to the point where they constantly obsess over what people do in the bedroom, where their rage takes over and just consumes them. These people are just rage obsessed lunatics who actually are trying to take away our freedom. It's madness, true madness. I really hope that the Supreme Court rules in favor of the Constitution and not of the Bible.