Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Mike Huckabee: Impeach Arkansas Judge Who Struck DownGay Marriage Ban


Outside of Tony Perkins and a few others, no one in today's GOP better demonstrates the metastasizing cancer that the Christofascists represent with in the Republican Party more than Mike Huckabee.  Huckabee, as he stated on Morning Joe some years back wants the U.S. Constitution replaced by the Bible as America's governing document.  Similarly, he wants a Christofascist theocracy to replace our constitutional form of government.  Picture an Iran style government with scary lunatics like Huckabee in charge.  In the wake of the recent ruling by an Arkansas state court judge that struck down that state's ban on same sex marriage, Huckabee is in a state of near apoplexy and is making spittle flecked rants that the judge who handed down the completely justified ruling be impeached.  LGBTQ Nation looks at Huckabee's batshitery.  Here are excerpts:
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says lawmakers in his home state should impeach a judge who struck down the state’s gay marriage ban, saying the judge ignored the will of voters.

In a blog post on his political action committee website, Huckabee on Sunday criticized Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza for finding unconstitutional a 2004 amendment and 1997 state law banning same-sex marriage.

Huckabee wrote that the governor should call a special session to impeach Piazza. A spokesman for the PAC confirmed that Huckabee wrote the post.

Huckabee wrote that if Arkansans want to legalize same-sex marriage, they should put it on the ballot and vote for it.

State Sen. Jason Rapert (R-Conway, Ark.) said over the weekend he has been contacted by other legislators that would seek to start impeachment proceedings against Piazza in the House of Representatives.

But Republican House Speaker Davy Carter called Rapert’s suggestion “absurd,” and said he would not support any attempts at impeachment.

“Trying to impeach a judge because you don’t like his or her decision notwithstanding the subject matter is absurd and goes against hundreds of years of the way our great country has conducted business under our three branches of government,” said Carter.

“The appellate process needs to run its course. Our forefathers saw the importance of our constitution and system of self-governance,” he said. “That system has worked well for a long time and make us who we are as a country. I won’t support any effort to undermine that.”
Like most Christofascists, Huckabee supports mob rule by the majority.  Personally, I cannot wait for the day when Christians are a minority in America and begin to reap the same kind of treatment they have dished out to others for far too long.   That day cannot come soon enough.

By coincidence, last week we got a call from Huckabee's PAC at the house seeking to disseminate lies and bullshit.  Suffice it to say, I gave them an earful!!

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