Mike Huckabee Cheers Pope Francis for Meeting Kim Davis

With news emerging that Pope Francis met Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed for violating a judicial order to issue same-sex marriages, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., praised the pope and the Kentucky clerk on Wednesday. 

Huckabee, now making a second bid for the Republican presidential nomination, had been a vocal supporter of Davis’ refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses. 

"While the media elites were slobbering all over themselves because Pope Francis commented on climate change, the pope held a quiet and powerful meeting with a humble Apostolic county clerk from Kentucky,” Huckabee said on Wednesday. "The pope recognized something the chattering class in Washington and Wall Street will never understand - that Kim Davis followed her conscience and convictions. The pope thanked Kim for doing so and congratulated her for her stand.

"The media mocked and derided millions of Americans who supported Kim Davis' constitutional right to religious liberty,” Huckabee added. “It may just be a visit from the pope that pushes the out of touch political class in Washington to finally stand up to judicial tyranny and stand for religious liberty."