http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/mike-huckabee-uses-mlk-attack-gay-marriage
Former Governor Mike Huckabee, an outspoken critic of gay marriage, used the greatest symbol of freedom from discrimination in America's history, Martin Luther King, to justify his attacks on gay rights and marriage equality. It was simply an appalling and horrifying exhibition of hatred for Americans being masqueraded as a form of religious discrimination against the discriminatees that populate the conservative party
HUCKABEE: Are we going to trade one level of what's called discrimination for a new level of discrimination against people of faith.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So are you calling for civil disobedience?
HUCKABEE: I don't think a lot of pastors and Christian schools are going to have a choice. They either are going to follow God, their conscience and what they truly believe is what the scripture teaches them, or they will follow civil law. They will go the path of Dr. Martin Luther King, who in his brilliant essay the letters from a Birmingham jail reminded us, based on what St. Augustine said, that an unjust law is no law at all. And I do think that we're going to see a lot of pastors who will have to make this tough decision. You're going to see it on the part of Christian business owners. You'll see it on the part of Christian university presidents, Christian school administrators. If they refuse to -
What a gas guzzling neanderthal. The struggle for gay rights has been monumental and this phony man of God seeks to continue to discriminate against them by hiding behind The man who symbolized the struggle for freedom against tyrannical and religious persecution.
Many white Americans used God and religion to justify their attacks on African Americans during the civil rights movement and Huckabee is doing the same thing here.
he too is cementing the Black vote for the party just not his. it's amazing how for decades they demonize then when they see what they think is a opportunity to exploit them in a 180 rant they embrace those they slammed and count them as their reputable source now Pres. Clinton that takes a lot of brass. starting early was the best thing the could have done for the American people because they will pile it on themselves so high Nov. 4th 2016 all their base can vote for is elephant dung, down side if they do manage to elect them they won't even get elephant dung from them just a swift kick to the curb till next cycle. pray for their children.
