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Mike Huckabee: Jailing of Kim Davis “removes all doubt of the criminalization of Christianity”
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee blasted the jailing on Thursday (3 September) of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis for contempt of court.
Davis was ordered into custody by a federal judge who said she must do her job and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite her religious objections.
‘Having Kim Davis in federal custody removes all doubt of the criminalization of Christianity in our country,’ Huckebee wrote in a post on Facebook.
‘We must defend religious liberty and never surrender to judicial tyranny. Five, un-elected Supreme Court lawyers did not and cannot make law. They can only make rulings. The Supreme Court is not the Supreme branch and it’s certainly not the Supreme Being.’
The US Supreme Court ruled on 26 June that same-sex marriage is now legal in all 50 states. It was then that Davis stopped issuing marriage licenses to all couples – straight or gay – which resulted in a federal lawsuit against her.
Davis lost the lawsuit and is appealing. Five of her deputy clerks told the judge they would issue licenses beginning Friday (4 September). Because Davis would not promise to not interfere with that process, the judge ordered her to stay in jail until she complies or resigns.
Huckabee, a candidate for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, also wrote: ‘I am proud of Kim for standing strong for her beliefs. Who will be next? Pastors? Photographers? Caterers? Florists? This is a reckless, appalling, out-of-control decision that undermines the Constitution of the United States and our fundamental right to religious liberty.’
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