Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly challenged Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for saying he wouldn’t bend to legalized gay marriage nationwide, despite the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on Friday.
Huckabee issued a statement evoking the Revolution in the wake of the ruling vowing: “I will not acquiesce to an imperial court…We must resist and reject judicial tyranny.”
“What does that mean?” Kelly asked Huckabee. “You have to accept this ruling, right? I mean, are you planning on not accepting this ruling in a way?”
“How do we accept something that is – on its face – unconstitutional? Has the Congress yet acted?” Huckabee responded.
But Kelly was undeterred, laying into the GOPer: “It’s the Supreme Court’s job to interpret the Constitution and tell us what it means. And like it or not, they get the final say unless the people decide to pass a constitutional amendment.”
“Glad you brought that up, that’s the whole point, the people do have a right to say, and in over thirty states they did say, and they said very clearly that they want to affirm the laws of nature, and the laws of nature’s god, words from the Declaration of Independence, and keep marriage what it’s always been,” Huckabee said.
The candidate then compared the decision to the Supreme Court’s 1857 Dred Scott ruling, which ruled African Americans were not citizens, to the same-sex marriage decision.
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