Republican presidential candidate Mike
Huckabee has reiterated his call for civil disobedience if the
Supreme Court strikes down state bans on gay marriage.
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 before the end of the month.
Appearing on Fox News, Huckabee told
Todd Starnes that social conservatives like himself have two choices:
civil disobedience or “biblical disobedience.”
“And for many of us, civil
disobedience when we believe the civil government has acted outside
of nature and nature's god, outside of the bounds of the law, outside
of the bounds of the constitution, we believe that it's the right and
moral thing to do,” said
Huckabee, a former Fox News host.
“What if no one had acted in
disobedience to the Dred Scott decision of 1857? What if the entire
country had capitulated to judicial tyranny and we just said that
because the Supreme Court in 1857 said that a black person wasn't
fully human? Suppose we had accepted that. Suppose Abraham Lincoln,
our president, had accepted that. Would that have been the right
course of action?”
Huckabee also called such an outcome
unconstitutional: “If we're not going to follow our constitution,
maybe we should loan it to some developing country so that they could
try it out, if we're not going to use it anymore.”