"Tyranny"
It
was a big day on the Sunday talk shows, with decisions coming down on
Obamacare and gay marriage, threats from ISIS, the confederate flag
coming down, and a landmark address from the President.
On
the confederate flag, Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee said “it
was Republicans who stepped up and made this happen,” while
Kathleen Parker said Southerners would have taken it down a long time
ago if it weren't for Northerners making a big deal about it, saying,
“it almost has less to do with the flag itself than the outside
forces insisting that they take it down. There's still that sort of
dig-your-heels-in-and-resist mentality.”
On
marriage equality, Newt Gingrich said “I don't happen to think we
ought to decide these things in courts, I think there's a reason to
have political bodies.”
Governor
Bobby Jindal agreed, saying “Why couldn't the court have said,
'We're going to respect the decisions made by the states'? Why not
say, 'We're going to defer to the elected representatives of the
people'?”
But
he's ready to fight discrimination now, for his people, declaring “My
view of marriage is based on my Christian faith. No earthly court's
decision is going to change that,” and “We have to stand up and
fight for religious liberty. That's where this fight is going. The
left wants to silence us, Hillary Clinton wants to silence us. We're
not going away.”
But
the most unhinged reaction came from Huckabee, appearing on ABC's
This Week.
He is also worried about imaginary discrimination, but not the real
kind, declaring, “are we going to now discriminate against people
of conscience, people of faith who may disagree with this ruling?”
and asking “if we are going trade one level of what's called
discrimination for a new level
of discrimination against people of
faith”?
When
it comes to being allowed discriminate himself, he is so determined
he's willing to disobey the Supreme Court, despairing “We've always
been a nation of law. We're now a nation of men,” and dismissing
the court entirely saying “This was done from a court edict of five
unelected lawyers, a
part of a committee.”
He
called the decision quote “judicial tyranny,” saying the court
imposed itself in the marriage case and in the Obamacare case – an
absurd position given that in that case the court upheld a law passed
by the legislature.
He
said states should ignore the court, and that government employees
from now on should disobey all Supreme Court rulings they disagree
with.
He
cited Martin Luther King Jr. who fought against legal discrimination
against minorities, for his right to continue to discriminate against
minorities. He finally concluded saying as President he would put a
nativity scene on the White House lawn, and would refuse to enforce
the court's ruling, or presumably, any ruling he did not agree with,
after all, they're just “five lawyers on the Supreme Court.”
So,
still vehemently arguing for their right to discriminate,
conservatives are now suddenly very worried about discrimination
against Christians; the U.S. Supreme Court is now just some committee
of five unelected lawyers to be ignored; and we should be governed by
legislation and the will of the people, not court rulings, except
when it comes to installing George W. Bush in the Presidency, voting
rights, gun control, campaign finance, immigration, and
of course,
Obamacare.
And
that's the most ridiculous thing that happened this Sunday.
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