If Mike Huckabee wins the presidency in 2016 you can expect to see a nativity scene outside his White House around Christmas, and he doesn’t want to hear any complaints about it.
“When the president lit up the White House the other night with rainbow colors, I guess that’s his prerogative,” Huckabee said on ABC’s This Week. “If I become president, I just want to remind people, please don’t complain if I were to put a nativity scene out during Christmas and say, ‘If it’s my house, I get to do with it what I wish, despite what other people around the country may feel about it.”
The former governor of Arkansas is a staunch social conservative who is not ready to give up the fight over same-sex marriage. He has called the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, “judicial tyranny,” and said the court’s decision will allow “a new level of discrimination against people of faith.”
Since the Supreme Court ruling in June, many of the Republican presidential candidates have affirmed that they still favor traditional marriage.
Scott Walker has proposed a constitutional amendment that would allow states to ban same-sex marriages.
However, not all of the candidates are as extremely opposed as Huckabee and Walker. John Kasich has said although he was disappointed with the ruling, it is the law of the land and we need to “just move on.” During the first presidential debate Kasich said he recently attended a friend’s gay wedding.
“Because somebody doesn’t think the way I do, doesn’t mean that I can’t care about them or I can’t love them,” Kasich said.
