“Fox News” host Megyn Kelly seemed unable to believe Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s response to the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling Friday.
“‘I will not acquiesce to an imperial court any more than our Founders acquiesced to an imperial British monarch,'” said Kelly, quoting a statement the former Arkansas government had released on the ruling. “‘We must resist and reject judicial tyranny, not retreat.'”
“What does that mean?” she asked Huckabee skeptically. “You have to accept this ruling, right? I mean, are you planning on not accepting this ruling in a way?”
“Well how do we accept something that on it’s face is unconstitutional, ” Huckabee replied.
“How do you not accept it?” Kelly shot back.
“It’s the Supreme Court’s job to interpret the Constitution and tell us what it means,” said Kelly, eyes widening. “And like it or not, they do 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,” Huckabee replied. “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.”
“When we say that the Supreme Court has the last word, they had the last word in Dred Scott in 1857,” said Huckabee, comparing Friday’s Supreme Court ruling to the infamous Dred Scott v. Sanford decision of 1857 that declared black people were property. “I know of no one who thinks that was a proper decision or that we should still abide by it today! Or that Abraham Lincoln should have just rolled over, put up the white flag of surrender, and said ‘Hey that’s the law of the land, there’s nothing I can do about it.'”
President Obama pushed the gay marriage agenda after flip flopping on the issue, Huckabee pointed out. Obama shared the one man, one woman version of marriage in 2008. Obama said then he believed in traditional Christian marriage because “God was in the mix,” said Huckabee. “One of three things happened: either he was lying then, he’s lying now, or God changed the definition of marriage between 2008 and 2012, and Barack Obama was the only one who got the new version.”
