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Huckabee ‘Speaks Jesus’

May 4, 2015 Buck Banks

I do not come to you tonight with the ability to speak Spanish. But I do speak a common language. I speak Jesus.

— Mike Huckabee, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, speaking to a Hispanic audience.

Sorry, Christians – Under Religious Freedom Laws, the Bible Also Requires You to Refuse Service to Adulterers

April 4, 2015April 4, 2015 Jon Ponder

art-confederate-gay-married Public outrage over the Religious Freedom Restoration Acts that have passed in 21 states, so far, appears to be the latest sign of a massive shift toward support for gay civil rights. It also suggests people looked past Republican rhetoric and saw these laws for what they’re really meant to be — licenses for right-wing Christians to discriminate against gays, particularly Christians in the wedding business who want to refuse to bake cakes and provide floral arrangements for same-sex weddings based on moral grounds.

It is not only petty to withhold wedding flowers and cakes from a particular class of sinners, it is also unlawful on its face. RFRAs not only violate public-accommodation laws and would arguably be unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause, their use of religion to single out a particular class of people runs afoul of the separation of church and state — the legal barrier that prevents our democratic republic from sliding into theocracy. It’s as un-American to discriminate against gays based on the Old Testament as it would be to restrict gay rights based on Sharia law, for example.

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Huckabee Claims His Support Goes Beyond Evangelicals

March 30, 2015 Buck Banks

My base is really beyond just evangelicals. I think the untold secret is a lot of the support that I have, and that I anticipate I will have, is from the working-class, blue-collar people who grew up a lot like I did – not blue-blood, but blue-collar.

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Huckabee ‘Speaks Jesus’

I do not come to you tonight with the ability to speak Spanish. But I do speak a common language. I speak Jesus.

— Mike Huckabee, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, speaking to a Hispanic audience.

Sorry, Christians – Under Religious Freedom Laws, the Bible Also Requires You to Refuse Service to Adulterers

Huckabee Claims His Support Goes Beyond Evangelicals

My base is really beyond just evangelicals. I think the untold secret is a lot of the support that I have, and that I anticipate I will have, is from the working-class, blue-collar people who grew up a lot like I did – not blue-blood, but blue-collar.

— Mike Huckabee, quoted by The Hill, brushing off the challenge to his base in the GOP presidential race from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Donald Trump is celebrating Easter by selling copies of his latest product, the God Bless the USA Bible, for $59.99 each.

“Wow! Ronna McDaniel got fired by Fake News NBC. She only lasted two days, and this after McDaniel went out of her way to say what they wanted to hear. It leaves her in a very strange place, it’s called NEVER NEVERLAND, and it’s not a place you want to be.”

— Donald Trump made fun of Ronna McDaniel after NBC News ended its contract with her following an internal uproar across the company, The Hill reports.

“You can’t have an election in the middle of a political season.”

— Donald Trump, at a news conference earlier March 26.

“Congratulations, Donald. Quite the accomplishment.”

— President Joe Biden, on X, mocking Donald Trump’s largely all-caps gushing announcement on his social media platform Truth Social of winning a tournament at his own golf club.

Numerati

$71 million

48% to 45%

59%

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34%

A new Monmouth poll finds 34% of Americans would like to go and settle in another country if they were free to do so. Fifty years ago, this number stood at a much lower 10%.