Huckabee To Visit Davis In Jail; Conduct Rally
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Mike Huckabee sees the martyrdom of Kim Davis as a way to get some oxygen in the presidential race.
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Huckabee will visit Kim Davis, the Rowan County clerk, in jail Tuesday before he is set to rally supporters outside the detention center where she is being held, Huckabee spokesman Hogan Gidley told CNN on Friday.
Davis declined to heed a U.S. Supreme Court order legalizing same-sex marriage, so on Thursday, a federal judge held her in contempt and remanded her to custody. Davis’s attorney said Friday that the clerk has no intention of resigning.
Huckabee has seized on the issue, setting up a petition on his campaign website calling for Davis’s release that has already drawn more than 55,000 signatures, and has called Davis’s case an example of the “criminalization of Christianity in our country.”
“What we end up having is the first example of the criminalization of a Christian for believing in the traditional definition of marriage,” Huckabee told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” Friday.
On Thursday, Huckabee said he was “proud” of Davis.
“We must defend religious liberty and never surrender to judicial tyranny,” he said in a statement. “I am proud of Kim for standing strong for her beliefs. Who will be next? Pastors? Photographers? Caterers? Florists? This is a reckless, appalling, out-of-control decision that undermines the Constitution of the United States and our fundamental right to religious liberty.”
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