Republican presidential candidate Mike
Huckabee on Monday reiterated his assertion that the government
should ignore the Supreme Court on gay marriage.
In an interview with David Brody of the
Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), Huckabee pledged to undermine
gay rights if elected president.
Asked what the would do as president
about the Supreme Court's ruling striking down gay marriage bans in
all 50 states, Huckabee reiterated that only Congress can create
laws.
“When people say the train left the
station, it’s the law of the land, there’s nothing we can do,
let’s move on. I want to say, ‘Have you guys read the
Constitution, did you pass 9th grade civics?' The court can't make
law,” Huckabee
said. “We pretend that it can and I’m convinced that a lot
of people give that sort of response because they don’t want to
have to deal with the complexities of the constitution, which says
that there are checks and balances. If we surrender to the judicial
branch as if it is the last, final and ultimate word, then we have
surrendered to judicial tyranny which is what Jefferson warned us
about and the reason that he rejected some Supreme Court arguments as
simply being something he couldn’t accept and he didn’t…as did
Jackson, as did Lincoln. This notion that the Supreme Court ruled it
and therefore it's the law of the land bypasses the only entity in
our government that can make the law of the land: the legislative
branch, and it's not even law until the president signs it and agrees
to enforce it. And first of all, a president, if he's not going to
uphold that part of the constitution, get out of the race because
you're going to be lying when you take the oath and say you'll uphold
and defend the constitution because on its face, you're not defending
it, neither are you upholding it when you surrender to the god of
judicial supremacy so we've got to start there and I certainly would
start there.”
Huckabee went on to pledge to
aggressively “defend religious liberty and the rights of people of
faith and conscience whether they're business owners acting as
individuals, whether they're hospitals, churches, schools, adoption
agencies” so that “no one's religious liberty will be trampled
upon because they refuse to bow to something that violates nature and
nature's God. Words, that by the way, I borrowed right out of the
Declaration of Independence.”