Schooling Mike Huckabee on the history of the Dred Scott decision

At the Daily Beast, author Todd Brewster, who last year wrote a book about Abraham Lincoln and the history of the Emancipation Proclamation, takes Mike Huckabee to task over his conflation of resistance to same-sex marriage with resistance to the Dred Scott decision, the pre-Civil War ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court which denied black Americans citizenship.

It's morally absurd to make Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis out to be Abraham Lincoln, of course (which is the context of Huckabee's remarks). But it's hard to argue with deeply held beliefs that define non-heterosexual relationships as wicked. Instead of the moral argument, Brewster focuses on history to point out why Huckabee's claims are incorrect: