Supreme Court Pick ‘N Choose
Mike Huckabee, the former Governor of Arkansas and Head of a mess of Steeple People, has decided that the Supreme Court ain’t all that Supreme when they disagree with him.
He’s advising us to just ignore them.
In an interview with Iowa-based conservative talk show host Steve Deace on Monday, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee repeated his recommendation that governors simply ignore the Supreme Court’s decision to let stand lower court rulings legalizing marriage equality in several new states, adding that state governments should have also ignored Roe v. Wade and the Supreme Court rulings banning school-sponsored prayer.
He then reminds us that the Supreme Court “isn’t God.” But Huckabee is.
He announces, “this is really about in the end using the coercive force of government to get you to abandon your own moral conscience.” No, no it isn’t. If you don’t like gay marriage, don’t get one. I don’t like those little fish things on the back of cars, so I don’t get one. I don’t like praying on street corners so I don’t do that either. Mike, all you have to do is not marry a man. Is that so difficult? Oh, wait. Is the temptation too great, Mike?
Thanks to Claudia for the heads up.
Hucksterbee is, was, and probably shall always be my number one exhibit for the proposition that the very best training ground for grifters and con artists of all stripes is likely a seminary school and most likely a southern Baptist seminary.
1Your last paragraph is so true JJ! Just because I can marry another woman if I wanted to – and my husband and the law would approve – doesn’t mean I must marry another woman!
The xtians are actually really getting on my last nerve these days with their belief that whatever they say is true, is true. IT IS NOT TRUE!
I simply cannot understand people who follow these charlatans. So often, they do not walk their talk but they expect their sheep to walk the talk for sure – and to send them $$$. I do hope they pay for their actions in their version of the afterlife. Personally, I think I am getting wiser each time I come back and maybe I will only need a couple of more trips to learn all the life lessons required 🙂
2Once upon a time this guy and his wife were living in a double wide on he lawn of the Arkansas governor’s mansion while that pile of stone was being upgraded to the 20th century. During this event, Huck was even funny, a real stand up comedian. Then he got back inside the mansion and turned into something made out of parts in a crazy scientists lab. Now he utters the most malificent nonsense and hangs around with **apola artist Ted Nugent.
Huckykins, its time for you to hang it all up and capital T totally retire to a mountaintop in Nepal!
3http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025638025
Not safe for mama or work.
Loved the last line JJ
4Always had a sneaking suspicion that half these respectable christian republicans are fighting against gay marriage because their ‘friends’ are bugging them to come out of the closet since “we can get married now”!
Diane, the tweets were perfection! Love it when God or Jesus “reply” to the likes of the Huckster or Perry.
With marriage equality soon to be a reality in all 50 states, plus DC, is there a book of etiquette to cover situations like Huckster asking his wife for the ring back and having it reset for his new husband?
Again, congratulations to the LGBTQIA community and best wishes for enjoying the rights you deserve in all fifty states!
5Mike Huckabee has a moral conscience? I never would have guessed it!
6I think one of the greatest scams perpetrated on the Western world – besides the concept of religion itself – is this whole thing about “sodomy” – that being the sin, of course, of Sodom and Gomorrah. First, why didn’t they call it Gomorrah-y? But second, let’s remember the circumstances. Two strangers show up at Lot’s place. They are, of course, undercover angels, checking things out for God. The party boys of Sodom show up at Lot’s door and say, hey! Send them guys out. We want to get to know them, in what will come to be known as the Biblical sense of knowing, except, no one has written it down yet because, hey, we’re still living it.
No knowing, says Lot, these guys are under my roof, they are my guests. But here, take my daughters and know them, they could use some knowledge.
(Let’s pause for a moment and consider Lot’s daughters. These are the ones who later on are sure they and daddy are the last three people on earth, so let’s get to know HIM in the biblical sense, ’cause we got a lot of begatting to do. So I’m guessing heading out of doors with the party boys of Sodom was not really an onerous propsect for them.)
But the party boys insist that it’s the newbs they want. The undercover angels warn Lot to flee.
(So let’s pause and consider THAT for a moment. Remember Abraham had argued God down to sparing S&G for the sake of a few innocent people. God was REALLY hell-bent to do some smiting, so the undercover angels evacuated the just, so the unjust could BURN. OT God’s kind of a dick that way.)
But what was the sin of the Sodomites? What was the purpose of the story? It was not sexual deviance. Plenty of other folks in the world enjoyed same-sex knowing one another indiscriminately, and as we have found out repeatedly in this “good” book, and are about to learn again, even drunken incest with your kids is not a deal-breaker.
No, their sin was trampling on the ancient (even then) culture of hospitality in the Middle East, of kindness to strangers. The welcoming, feeding and protection of strangers is a primary duty to God. And that duty of kindness exists even to this day in that region.
So really, the story of Sodom and Gomorrah is not about marginalizing, ostracizing or even killing the different, alien or strange among us.
It is about welcoming them into your community.
And Conservative Xtian brains explode in 3…2…
7@daChipster:
8I’m betting that isn’t how the story was splained at First Baptist church of Sodom.
Great explanation, daChipster, but lost on Huckabee. He’s probably too busy taking a wide stance in the church men’s room to listen.
9Good one,da Chipster. Now if you could explain Shuckabee in 140 characters or less…..
10I suggest we all simply ignore this Huckabuffoon who has obviously never read the US Constitution and is not qualified to sweep the courthouse floors.
The flaming gall of this idiot….
That’s what religion does: it gives fools the assurance that anything that comes out of their mouths is approved by the creator of the universe.
11Christian theocrats believe that the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause applies only to them but the Establishment Clause applies only to others. That belief requires the most tortured logic imaginable. And that’s the logic that leads to so many of their other erroneous conclusions.
12That huckleberry! He doth think mightily of hisself.
13Symbolic ceremonies seem so darned important to this jerk, but not the affordable healthcare for the poor, which is actually a life or death matter. He’s abusing his bully pulpit again, which means he’s not abiding by the separation of church and state and might have to answer to the IRS. Hope so.
Does that mean that the governors of the blue states can ignore the Citizens United ruling by the SCOTUS and ban corporate political donations in their state’s political races?
14Rhea I am stealing that last line and using it. Want to be cited?
15Remember when Huck used to be the nice, moderate one?
16As Maggie said & in his first 1/2 term as Governor he didn’t do a bad job, he was quite progressive. When he ran for President in 2008 he was a lot more on the side of reasonable than most of his opponents. After McCain picked $arah as his running mate over him and he got his show on Fox he started to curdle. He seems to have been in a gradual mental decompensation process ever since. It is a sad thing.
17daChipster is completely right about the Sodomy myth. The S&G story is referred to several times in the bible. You would think, if the focus of the story is sex, that would be mentioned in each of the other references.
Not once. It’s not there. Geez. Makes you wonder. Huckabee is full of it.
18Angelo_Frank–I like that idea.
19Bananas,
Love the description. Curdle It’s perfect. Describes republicans
20personalities, their demanor and their faces.
Think s Shawn and Bill. Oh and Ann C and Malicious Malkin.
Yep, they are curdled!
This is reminiscent of those who want to preserve the Constitution by getting rid of unelected judges.
21Late to the show, but those Governors would have ignored the 1960s Civil Rights movement if SCOTUS hadn’t ruled against them and the Feds enforced it.
[And yes, daChipster, the Old Testament God was quite often a bully. “Let’s go genocide these people and take their land. Let’s go genocide those people and sow their land with salt.” Some nasty things were said to be done in God’s name.]
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