Mike Huckabee: Americans Should 'Resist and Reject Judicial Tyranny' After Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down same-sex marriage bans on Friday, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., called on Americans to “resist and reject judicial tyranny." Huckabee is currently making a second bid for the Republican presidential nomination. 

"The Supreme Court has spoken with a very divided voice on something only the Supreme Being can do -- redefine marriage. I will not acquiesce to an imperial court any more than our founders acquiesced to an imperial British monarch.  We must resist and reject judicial tyranny, not retreat,” Huckabee said on Friday. 

"This ruling is not about marriage equality, it's about marriage redefinition,” Huckabee added. “This irrational, unconstitutional rejection of the expressed will of the people in over 30 states will prove to be one of the court's most disastrous decisions, and they have had many. The only outcome worse than this flawed, failed decision would be for the president and Congress, two co-equal branches of government, to surrender in the face of this out-of-control act of unconstitutional, judicial tyranny.

"The Supreme Court can no more repeal the laws of nature and nature's God on marriage than it can the laws of gravity,” Huckabee said in closing. “Under our Constitution, the court cannot write a law, even though some cowardly politicians will wave the white flag and accept it without realizing that they are failing their sworn duty to reject abuses from the court. If accepted by Congress and this president, this decision will be a serious blow to religious liberty, which is the heart of the First Amendment."