Posted on 09/08/2015 7:28:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
LOUISVILLE, KY. — Presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will join protesters at a Tuesday rally outside the jail where a Kentucky clerk is locked in a cell over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
Huckabee plans a private meeting with Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed by a federal judge Thursday after defying several court orders. Her lawyers spent Labor Day weekend filing appeals in an effort to force her release, but she remains there on a contempt charge.
Huckabee, a former Baptist minister who often reaches out to religious conservatives, says Davis is simply exercising her religious freedom by denying the marriage licenses.
Davis' jailing offers the many Republican presidential candidates an opportunity to appeal to the GOP's evangelical Christian wing, which opposes same-sex marriage and casts Davis' imprisonment as an issue of religious freedom.
Another Republican presidential candidate, Ted Cruz, plays to visit Davis Tuesday. Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier says the Texas senator will meet with the Rowan County clerk on Tuesday afternoon. But Cruz will not be attending the 3 p.m. rally that Huckabee plans to be part of.
Politico reports:
Cruz's visit to Kentucky comes as he ramps up engagement of Christian conservatives in Iowa and nationally.
He recently held a major rally, in defense of religious liberty, in Des Moines, and has unveiled an effort to tap a pastor to represent his campaign in all of Iowa's 99 counties. In New Hampshire, he recently unveiled a leadership team that includes a number of pastors, and in South Carolina he spoke at an event dubbed the "We Stand with God" rally.
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I’m not going to mince words, Huckabee is running for president and organized the rally to promote Mike Huckabee and undercut Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz was out of the gate first when she was jailed warning us there will be more people going to jail in the future.
I would go to the rally today knowing full well Huckabee is staging it for his own purposes.
I haven’t been watching Huckabee’s media blitz but it would be important for him as a GOPe operative to bash Trump in some way, shape or form.
RE: I’m not going to mince words, Huckabee is running for president and organized the rally to promote Mike Huckabee and undercut Ted Cruz.
I’m not going to mince word either — Elections or not, I REALLY believe that Huckabee SINCERELY believes what he is saying.
I am NOT a Huckabee fan and would never vote for him for president, but I am going to the rally today to stand with davis and the 1st amendment of the Constitution.
Philippians 1:12-18. The motive is irrelevant, whatever it is; the gospel is everything.
If either of you post a follow up later on today about the rally, turn out, what happened etc., would you please ping me?
TIA and have a great time!
Will Trump be there? I think not. He believes in the phoney baloney rule of law nonsense. Will ge try to help her? Cue the crickets.
Bueller .. Bueller ..
this comment is directed squarely at TRUMP
this is a make or break issue in my mind
I thought of Philippians 4:8
Post after action report if possible.
Crass political theatre. Sorry to see Cruz do this.
RE: Crass political theatre. Sorry to see Cruz do this.
And why is doing the right thing crass political theater?
Bless you for your support. I hope the turnout is overwhelming.
Cruz is a man of principle.
I’m wondering if Cruz will be coaching the her and her lawyer in the arguments that will be most effective for her.?
I agree. Huck is not the greatest Presidential choice but I believe he is a committed Christian and pastor. I think he would do this no matter what.
When you get back from the rally please give us an update.
I realize what you are saying and when the situations are tough and civil disobedience is underway like what happened in Nebraska in the early 1980’s I didn’t care who took the side of the church and school.
Heck, the US Chamber of Commerce editorialized for the church and school because the Nebraska law was designed to promote a unionized state monopoly of education.
But that doesn’t make them the good guys on some of the other issues out there......
Apparently, Huckabee had one of his staff block Cruz from going onto the stage.
“Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, also a Republican presidential contender, made an appearance, but it was Mr. Huckabee, a former Baptist pastor, who grabbed the political spotlight.
When Senator Cruz exited the jail a throng of journalists beckoned him toward their microphones, but an aide to Mr. Huckabee blocked the path of Mr. Cruz, who appeared incredulous.”
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