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Mike Huckabee Tells Brody File: No Surrender On Marriage Issue, Will Issue Executive Orders As President
CBN News
In an exclusive interview with The Brody File in Ames, Iowa, Mike
Huckabee says people of faith should not surrender on the gay marriage
issue and as president, he vows to use Executive Orders to protect
religious liberty and marriage. Read his views and action plan below.
Huckabee isn’t getting all the big headlines like Donald Trump, Ted
Cruz, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker and others yet he lurks right around
that number five slot in the polls. It's a nice place to be considering
Huckabee does very well in debates and a bunch of those are coming up.
Throw in his likeability factor and he is definitely in the mix of
someone who can win the nomination.
MANDATORY COURTESY: CBN NEWS/ THE BRODY FILE
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David Brody: I want to ask you another question about gay
marriage and religious liberty. They go hand in hand. Now President Mike
Huckabee, what would that 100 days look like under a President Mike
Huckabee administration as it relates to gay marriage because a lot of
people say, 'Hey, the train's leaving the station. Oh, well. Good luck
to you in the future.' What's a President Huckabee do?
Mike Huckabee: When people say the train left the station, it's
the law of the land, there's nothing we can do, let's move on. I want to
say, 'Have you guys read the Constitution, did you pass 9th grade
civics?' The court can't make law. We pretend that it can and I'm
convinced that a lot of people give that sort of response because they
don't want to have to deal with the complexities of the Constitution,
which says that there are checks and balances.
If we surrender to the judicial branch as if it is the last final
and ultimate word, then we have surrendered to judicial tyranny which
is what Jefferson warned us about and the reason he rejected some
Supreme Court arguments as simply being something he couldn't accept and
he didn't…as did Jackson as did Lincoln.
This notion that the Supreme Court ruled it and therefore it's
the law of the land bypasses the only entity in our government that can
make the law of the land: the legislative branch, and it's not even law
until the president signs it and agrees to enforce it. And first of all,
a president, if he's not going to uphold that part of the constitution,
get out of the race because you're going to be lying when you take the
oath and say you'll uphold and defend the Constitution because on its
face, you're not defending it, neither are you upholding it when you
surrender to the God of judicial supremacy. So we've got to start there
and I certainly would start there.
Brody: Can you do something as it relates to some Executive Orders, are there certain things you can do?
Huckabee: Absolutely. You can reverse the Executive Orders as it
relates to how the president has said you're going to make this a
mandatory issue throughout federal government but you also instruct the
attorney general to defend religious liberty and the rights of people of
faith and conscience whether they're business owners acting as
individuals, whether they're hospitals, churches, schools, adoption
agencies. It doesn't matter what it is. That no one's religious liberty
will be trampled upon because they refuse to bow to something that
violates nature and nature's God. Words, that by the way, I borrowed
right out of the Declaration of Independence.
But also order the Secretary of Defense on day one that you will
empower chaplains to perform their religious duties according to their
conscience and you will further make sure that no military member is
prohibited from the free exercise of their religious faith so long as it
does not impose itself as a hazard to their duty or an imposition to
their fellow military members, which means if the chaplain wants to put a
Bible on his desk, do it. If the chaplain wants to pray in Jesus' name
or the name of Allah, he does it. If the chaplain wants to counsel
according to his conscience and to what he believes about sexual
behavior, then he's free to do it.
Otherwise you have told him what the limitations of his belief
can be and unless those limitations somehow impede that soldier's
ability to be a soldier, or a sailor, or a marine, or an airman, or a
coast guardsman, then it is not the purview of the government of the
United States to prohibit the free exercise thereof of his or her
religion. Link>
Source: CBN News
Edited by News Room on 07/23/2015 at 10:28am
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