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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1708977" data-attributes="member: 12952">Mike Huckabee: Conservatives can ignore gay marriage ruling like Lincoln ignored Dred Scott“They can do same thing that <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/abraham-lincoln/" target="_blank">Abraham Lincoln</a> did about the Dred Scott decision of 1857,” <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/mike-huckabee/" target="_blank">Mr. Huckabee</a> said at the Western Conservative Summit. “The Dred Scott decision said that African-Americans were not fully human, that they need not be treated as fully human.”“He [<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/abraham-lincoln/" target="_blank">Lincoln</a>] simply ignored the ruling and said, ‘That’s not correct,’ ” <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/mike-huckabee/" target="_blank">Mr. Huckabee</a> said. “And by the way, it may sound like, ‘Oh, that’s an extreme position.’ Actually, it’s a constitutional position. Here’s why: If we acquiesce immediately without review, without the other branches of government, it goes back to my point, that this is judicial tyranny.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1708977, member: 12952"] [SIZE=6][B]Mike Huckabee: Conservatives can ignore gay marriage ruling like Lincoln ignored Dred Scott[/B] [B][/B] [B]“They can do same thing that [URL='http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/abraham-lincoln/']Abraham Lincoln[/URL] did about the Dred Scott decision of 1857,” [URL='http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/mike-huckabee/']Mr. Huckabee[/URL] said at the Western Conservative Summit. “The Dred Scott decision said that African-Americans were not fully human, that they need not be treated as fully human.” “He [[URL='http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/abraham-lincoln/']Lincoln[/URL]] simply ignored the ruling and said, ‘That’s not correct,’ ” [URL='http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/mike-huckabee/']Mr. Huckabee[/URL] said. “And by the way, it may sound like, ‘Oh, that’s an extreme position.’ Actually, it’s a constitutional position. Here’s why: If we acquiesce immediately without review, without the other branches of government, it goes back to my point, that this is judicial tyranny.” [/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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