Mike Huckabee Unveils Plan to Protect Religious Liberty After Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Decision

Currently making his "Religious Liberty Townhall Tour" of Iowa, where he won the 2008 caucus, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., offered his response to the U.S. Supreme Court making same-sex marriage the law of the land in a decision last week. Huckabee, making a second bid for the Republican presidential nomination, released his plan on how to protect religious liberty in light of last week’s decision on Tuesday afternoon. 

"While some cowardly politicians wave the white flag and surrender to this unconstitutional, out-of-control act of judicial tyranny, I reject this decision and will fight from day one of my administration to defend our Constitution and protect religious liberty," Huckabee said.
  
Huckabee’s plan is as follows:

1. Sign executive orders in support of traditional marriage that protect businesses, churches, nonprofits, schools and universities, hospitals, and other organizations from discrimination, intimidation, or civil or criminal penalties for exercising their religious beliefs.
 
2. Direct the attorney general to protect religious liberty and aggressively prosecute any violations of First Amendment rights of individuals, businesses, religious organizations, institutions and civil servants, including those who believe in traditional marriage.  The Justice Department will protect and defend the rights of American citizens to follow their religious convictions without discrimination and prosecute attacks on all people of faith and their religious liberty as hate crimes.  

3. Direct the secretary of defense to support military chaplains to exercise their faith and not force them to participate in ceremonies they find objectionable on religious grounds. People of faith will not be punished for serving their country and sacrificing to keep us free.