Republican presidential candidate Mike
Huckabee has warned that nationwide marriage equality threatens to
“criminalize Christianity.”
The nation's highest court heard
arguments in a case challenging bans in Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan and
Kentucky on April 28. A ruling, which could lead to nationwide
marriage equality, is expected in the next week.
In a letter to socially conservative
religious leaders, Huckabee said that a ruling striking down state
bans would be just as “backwards” and “broken” as those which
“rationalized the destruction of human life, defined
African-Americans as property and justified Japanese-American
internment camps.”
“I refuse to sit silently as
politically driven interest groups threaten the foundation of
religious liberty, criminalize Christianity, and demand that
Americans abandon Biblical principles of natural marriage,”
Huckabee
wrote. “I will fight to defend religious liberty at all
costs.”
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He reiterated that he would ignore such
a ruling.
“I also refuse to surrender to the
false god of judicial supremacy, which would allow black-robed and
unelected judges the power to make law and enforce it, which upends
the separation of powers so very central to our Constitution,”
Huckabee said. “Too much power concentrated in the courts is a
threat to our Republic. I will fight judicial tyranny and return
power to the people.”
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