Huckabee: I Can’t Believe Kentucky Clerk Is In Jail And Hillary Isn’t!

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks to reporters during a roundtable discussion in Washington, Friday April 17, 2015 about his future aspirations to run for President of the United States. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said on Thursday it was a wonder that an anti-gay Kentucky county clerk was in jail and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton wasn’t.

He also described the clerk, Kim Davis, who was taken into federal custody earlier in the day for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, as a victim of the “criminalization of Christianity.”

A day earlier, Huckabee described Davis as a “person of great conviction.”

Soon after she was taken into federal custody on Thursday, Huckabee took to Twitter to say it was part of a bigger problem.

This post has been updated.

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  1. Actually it shows the criminalization of crime…

  2. Aww, Hucky, nobody wants to criminalize Christianity; we just don’t want religious beliefs running the show in lieu of the Constitution. Is that so hard to understand?

  3. Shorter Huckabee: “Isn’t this terrible? Send me money.”

  4. Since the Hucksterbee supports this kind of breaking of the law, he is a co-conspirator, and should head to jail tomorrow, too. The charge against the Husksterbee would be conspiracy to commit treason, a life-long sentence if found guilty.

  5. All the candidates should be asked if they believe there are any circumstances under which God’s law should supersede civil law, whether legislative or judicial? If so, what are those circumstances?

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