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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 03:17 PM Jun 2014

Mike Huckabee: Martin Luther King Jr. would agree that gay marriage is like the Holocaust

By David Edwards
Thursday, June 19, 2014 14:57 EDT

Fox News host Mike Huckabee on Thursday compared the effort to prevent LGBT people from having equal marriage rights to fighting against Nazi Germany.

Speaking at the 2014 March for Marriage in Washington, D.C., Huckabee said that there was “no basis in the law” that gave a single judge the right to strike down same-sex marriage bans, like Sixth Judicial Circuit Judge Chris Piazza did in Arkansas in 2012.

“Nothing threatens your personal liberty more than the notion that you would bow your knee to the court system apart from the ultimate rule of the Constitution,” he opined. “And all of the branches of government, all of which are not there to tell you what you cannot do, but to guarantee the freedoms that you are always empowered to have.”

“We are under an obligation to obey God and the law, and if necessary, to defy an institution that is out of control,” the former Arkansas governor continued.

To make his point, Huckabee quoted from a letter that Martin Luther King’s Jr. wrote while spending eight days in the Birmingham Jail for fighting to end segregation.

“One may well ask, ‘How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?’” King had written. “The answer is found in the fact that there are two types of laws: there are just laws, and there are unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ‘An unjust law is no law at all.’”

Huckabee continued reading from King’s letter: “We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was ‘illegal.’ It was ‘illegal’ to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. But I am sure that if I had lived in Germany during that time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers even though it was illegal.”

“I wish I had penned those words,” Huckabee exclaimed. “But they were penned by someone who understood freedom, and understood that there was a time to stand up against law when it has become unjust. Those are the words that were penned in 1954 by Martin Luther King Jr. in his letter from the Birmingham Jail.”

“I wish he were here today to say in the people in the building this one, Mr. Supreme Court justices, Madam Supreme Court justices, your role is only to interpret the law, to make sure that it somehow meshes with the Constitution, not that it messes with the Constitution!” he shouted.

In fact, Coretta Scott King, the widow of Dr. King, has repeatedly suggested that her husband would have backed equal rights for LGBT people.

“Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination,” she told the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in 2000.

Watch the video below from the National Organization for Marriage, broadcast June 19, 2014.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/19/mike-huckabee-martin-luther-king-jr-would-agree-that-gay-marriage-is-like-the-holocaust/

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closeupready

(29,503 posts)
4. Wrong, and also, Coretta Scott King supported same-sex marriage
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 05:01 PM
Jun 2014

for many years prior to her passing, even though obviously, Coretta was Coretta and MLK was MLK.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
8. Martin worked closely with Bayard Rustin, a gay man and brillliant organizer
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 05:06 PM
Jun 2014

The company one keeps often speaks louder than the times will permit.

dawg

(10,610 posts)
5. dawg: Teddy Roosevelt would agree that Mike Huckabee is like the intestinal flu.
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 05:02 PM
Jun 2014

See, I can put words in the mouths of people who are no longer with us too!

sendero

(28,552 posts)
6. I don't know about that..
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 05:02 PM
Jun 2014

.... but I'm pretty sure Bozo the Clown thinks Huckabee is dumber than a bag of hammers.

TlalocW

(15,359 posts)
7. And if that were true, then he would be wrong
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 05:03 PM
Jun 2014

Just because someone is admired for one thing doesn't mean he or she is right on all things.

Arthur Conan Doyle is famous for creating the world's greatest detective who used his intellect to solve crimes, yet Doyle believed in the existence of fairies.

Linus Pauling was a Nobel prize winning chemist who wrongly believed he had the expertise to solve the common cold.

Michael Jordan sucked at baseball.

TlalocW

Behind the Aegis

(53,833 posts)
9. Behind the Aegis says listenting to Mike Huckabee is like cleaning one's ears with rusty nails.
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 05:07 PM
Jun 2014

Why do these people keep trying to co-opt the Holocaust with every trifiling nonsense? It wasn't a happy thing for my people (nor for 6 million others).

This idiot is trying to "steal" the plight of two peoples, Jews and AA, to justify his bigotry.

Initech

(99,915 posts)
10. A Fox News host making a Nazi comparison? I'm shocked, shocked I tell ya!
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 05:13 PM
Jun 2014

If it weren't for the Nazi comparisons, Huckabee, Hannity, and so on wouldn't have a damn thing to talk about!

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