Posted on 12/24/2015 1:22:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is letting US Senator Ted Cruz have it.
Huckabee, trailing badly in the polls in the race for their party’s presidential nomination, took to Twitter on Wednesday (23 December) to slam the higher-polling Cruz for saying that same-sex marriage is a state-by-state issue.
‘If marriage and sanctity of life are truly issues of principle-not politics-there shouldn’t be geographical boundaries to what’s right and wrong,’ Huckabee tweeted.
At a fundraiser held on 9 December at the Sullivan & Cromwell law firm on Madison Avenue, Cruz said to a group fiscally conservative but mostly socially liberal Republicans: ‘People of New York may well resolve the marriage question differently than the people of Florida or Texas or Ohio. … That’s why we have 50 states — to allow a diversity of views.’
Cruz was asked if fighting same-sex marriage is a top three priority for him.
He said it is not.
‘I would say defending the Constitution is a top priority,’ he said. ‘And that cuts across the whole spectrum – whether it’s defending (the) First Amendment, defending religious liberty, stopping courts from making public policy issues that are left to the people.’
In his Twitter rant, Huckabee asked: ‘Should conservatives support a corporately-funded candidate that says one thing at a Manhattan fundraiser and another at a Marshaltown church? Shouldn’t candidates be expected to have authenticity and consistency, instead of looking at a map to decide what to believe and what to say?’
He added: ‘Whether you agree with him, one reason I respect Trump: he doesn’t pretend with his principles or change his message depending on location/audience.’
I don’t think he can get back his gig at Fox anytime soon.
if you ask most people, even learned ones, they will think it was a “law” that was past.
a speaker at a seminar even said “that law could not have been passed even ten years ago” or something like that.
I corrected him. He wasn’t happy.
Didn’t realize that. I assumed as soon as he suspends his campaign, he’s right back there, with even more “credibility” as a participant in the 2016 race.
Unfortunately for the Huckster, Cruz is right.
It is a state by state issue.
In NY the legislature voted to legalize sodomite marriage. While I profoundly disagree with that legislation, it is within the scope and purview of the legislature who then had to face the voters after enacting for it. (NY does not have public referendum provisions)
I have zero respect for these unelected judges pronouncing from on high that I will be forced to bow to their dictates regarding sodomite marriage.
Here in Michigan we did vote and oppose gay marriage by a 60/40 margin.
I want to know why the same supreme court that said it was OK for us to vote to end affirmative action says its not OK for us to ban gay “marriage”.
...I agree with Huckabee, homosexual marriage is not a state issue any more than gun rights....
Gun rights are protected from interference by the Federal Government by the Second Amendment. What Amendment refers to marriage?
You might want to refer to the 9th and 10th Amendments for what the states did not give up.
Your post is basically half right and half incomprehensible.
Here’s the incomprehensible part: “Huckabee is right”.
I can’t actually figure out how you make the jump from your first paragraph to your last.
Making it clear that this is a state issue, and not a Federal one is the first step toward the corrective action we all want. The Federal Courts have to be constrained, and it is within the power of the Congress to do this through legislation.
Excellent post#2
Marriage is clearly stated in the 9th and 10th amendments.
States give marriage licenses, birth certificates, death certificates. Hopefully they always will.
The only place where the Feds should be involved in overseas embassies and the military.
Sodomy is a civil right these days....
it has supplanted everything else but woman as the leader of the grievance industry.
It’s the states OR the people actually.
According to politico, Huckaduck will drop out after he accomplishes his mission of taking a few votes from Cruz in Iowa.
No, shame on you, for playing politics with an issue you don’t seem to know much about.
Marriage IS a state issue.
No, it is NOT. Consider the Defense of Marriage Act. Settling on a state-issue is just giving up on it and accepting homosexual marriage. It is a national issue—courts and congress and admin giving homosexual benefits via federal government. That is not state issue. If you think the feds giving or not giving benefits, of recognizing homosexual marriage or not is a state issue, how so? When does the state tell the feds what to do?!
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