Republican presidential candidate Mike
Huckabee on Friday once again attacked the Supreme Court's ruling
striking down gay marriage bans in all 50 states.
Huckabee was among the Republican
presidential candidates speaking at the Family Research Council's
(FRC) annual Values Voter Summit.
Huckabee stood beside Davis earlier
this month as she emerged from a five-day jailing over her refusal to
comply with the U.S. Supreme Court's summer ruling. After a series
of legal losses, a federal judge found Davis in contempt. Davis
maintains that issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples
would violate her conscience.
(Related: Kim
Davis honored at FRC's Values Voter Summit.)
“I know this much, the courts cannot
make a law and I will take the oath to defend the constitution and I
will not surrender the executive branch and the legislative branch to
the court,” Huckabee, a strong opponent of LGBT rights, told the
crowd.
“And Kim Davis, and people like her,
will never, ever go to jail one minute, if I'm elected president,”
he
added.