Huckabee’s Hypocritical Theology
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Why hasn’t any so-called Christian refused to issue divorce decrees. After all, the Bible doesn’t permit divorce.
But while the cross-waving crowds at the rally in Kentucky — organized by Huckabee — cheered for him yesterday, the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe were far less jubilant when he appeared on their show Wednesday morning. Joe Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski quickly challenged the shaky theological claims of Huckabee and Davis, who is on her fourth marriage…
Scarborough, who was raised Southern Baptist and attended Catholic school, led off by posing a hypothetical to Huckabee: If a county clerk such as Kim Davis can deny legal same-sex marriages, what’s to stop another biblical literalist county clerk from denying a marriage license to someone who has had a divorce — especially since Jesus Christ explicitly condemns divorce in the Bible? In other words, how can Mike Huckabee cite the Bible while supporting Kim Davis’ opposition to same-sex marriage, but ignore the fact that she is on her fourth marriage — which, to a traditional biblical literalist, would mean that she is actively living in sin?
“Jesus was much more explicit about divorce,” Scarborough, who is divorced, said. “And you could much more easily make an argument that a judge would refuse to grant divorces because Jesus was much more explicit about divorce equaling adultery. So what would you think if a judge in Arkansas said ‘I’m not going to divorce these people, because Jesus Christ said that divorce is an abomination and that it is adultery’?”
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