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Friday, April 24, 2015

The Tony Perkins Award

Today, the proud recipient is Pastor/Governor Mike Huckabee (and maybe, one day, he'll figure out the difference), for this whopper:

If the courts rule that people have a civil right not only to be a homosexual but a civil right to have a homosexual marriage, then a homosexual couple coming to a pastor who believes in biblical marriage who says ‘I can’t perform that wedding’ will now be breaking the law. It’s not just saying, ‘I’m sorry you have a preference.’ No, you will be breaking the law subject to civil for sure and possible criminal penalties for violating the law. If you do practice biblical convictions and you carry them out and you do what you’ve been led by the spirit of God to do, your behavior will be criminal. God help us all.

Strangely enough, Pastor-Governor Huckabee seems to have forgotten the First Amendment Free Exercise Clause. I guess he thinks that only applies to bakers, florists, and photographers.

2 comments:

PietB said...

His hoam-skooling seems to have given him some problems with basic grammar and sentence structure, also. Poor man. He tries so hard to make himself understood; or should I say he has to try so hard to make himself understood.

Hunter said...

Don't kid yourself -- his target audience understands him perfectly.