Huckabee’s Hypocritical Theology
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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William September 10th, 2015 at 14:23
So the guy who intervened when his sicko kid tortured and killed a dog is “offended” over gay marriage.
Carla Akins September 10th, 2015 at 14:25
Yes, yes he was more explicit, stone them. Stone them to death.
Larry Schmitt September 10th, 2015 at 14:31
That was the Old Testament solution. Jesus never said to stone anyone. This is what he said about divorce: (notice not a word about gay marriage) Matthew 19English Standard Version (ESV)
3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” 4 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” 7 They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” 8 He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
Carla Akins September 10th, 2015 at 15:32
I figured it was over-reach. Trouble was, I didn’t care. :-)
Larry Schmitt September 10th, 2015 at 15:44
He deserves stoning anyway. Her I don’t care about.
Carla Akins September 10th, 2015 at 18:16
I feel ya.
rg9rts September 10th, 2015 at 14:44
Another amazing gyration by a thumper
allison1050 September 10th, 2015 at 15:13
He just continues to prove to me how stupid he is.
Bunya September 10th, 2015 at 15:22
That’s because God’s law trumps the constitution, unless of course Huckleberry can’t explain what the republican God actually said. Then the constitution trumps God’s law.
See how that works?
fahvel September 11th, 2015 at 03:52
in huks case it’e not a constitution, it’s constipation.
Bunya September 11th, 2015 at 10:59
LOL! I agree. Huckleberry looks like he’s perpetually constipated.
Mike September 10th, 2015 at 15:46
This guy’s campaign is as dead as a fish flopping on the dock…it’s all over but the filleting.
Expect a lot of crazy crap to come out of his mouth in an effort to remain somewhat relevant.
When Joe and Mika aren’t on your side, ya ain’t got nothing….
fahvel September 11th, 2015 at 03:52
the filleting would get a good tv audience!!
Larry Schmitt September 10th, 2015 at 18:05
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mrbigstuff September 10th, 2015 at 19:12
He picks and chooses like Kim Davis what they say is in the Bible both will get money from the rubes
StoneyCurtisll September 10th, 2015 at 22:40
This is the only means that Mike Huckabee has to get his name in the media…
What a pathetic troll the Huckester is…
Give it up Mike, it’s over for you.
fahvel September 11th, 2015 at 03:51
when sad people like hukleberry are given any credibility, it says an awful lot about what the usa seems to be. How the hell does a
narrow minded and lifeless lump like this continue to garner any interest other than from local termites?
Manastas September 12th, 2015 at 06:07
Give Huckabee his religious freedom and watch a Muslim refuse to serve a Christian and we can sit back and watch the fur fly.