Note to conservatives: Don't invoke Dred Scott in response to gay marriage decision

DENVER – Asked how conservatives should respond to the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage, Mike Huckabee made an awkward reference to the notorious Dred Scott ruling.

“They can do the same thing Abraham Lincoln did about the Dred Scott decision of 1857,” Huckabee said on Saturday at the Western Conservative Summit, when asked by the Washington Examiner‘s Byron York what conservatives could do in the wake of Friday’s Supreme Court ruling. “The Dred Scott decision said that African-Americans were not fully human, that they wouldn’t be treated as fully human.”