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"How to Make a Stupid Comparison" brought to you by Mike Huckabee

Former Arkansas Governor and one of the 947 Republican candidates running for the 2016 presidential election - Mike Huckabee - isn't only lacking in the polls; he seems to be lacking in his expertise when it comes to comparisons.

After Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis was jailed for contempt of court after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Huckabee appeared on ABC's This Week and said this on the matter:

"You obey (the law) if it's right. So, I go back to my question, is slavery the law of the land because Dred Scott said so? Was that a correct decision? Should the courts have been irrevocably followed on that? Should Lincoln have been put in jail? Because he ignored it. That's the fundamental question."

That's right, ladies and gentlemen; Mike Huckabee just compared gay marriage to slavery. More specifically, he compared opposing slavery to opposing gay marriage rights. Let's think about that for a moment. Slavery prevented African-Americans from attaining equal rights under the law. The Supreme Court's ruling on gay marriage afforded homosexuals equal rights under the law (when it comes to marriage anyway). In other words, Mike Huckabee believes that supporting equal rights is the same as opposing equal rights. Like I said, he really needs to work on his comparisons. If anything, what Kim Davis is (or isn't) doing is enslaving a particular demographic, for she's attempting to prevent homosexuals from having equal rights under the law, much like African-Americans during the time of slavery in this country.

Segueing from that, based on Huckabee's rationale in this case, it's quite likely he's made the following statements in the past:

- "It's perfectly fine for me to believe Muslims shouldn't be able to build mosques in this country. I mean, would it have been wrong for me to have been against women being allowed to vote?"

- "Yes, I support these voter suppression laws with regard to African-Americans, just like I didn't support slavery laws of these same very African-Americans back in the day!"

- "It should be perfectly legal for Christians to discriminate against everyone else, but illegal for anyone else to discriminate against Christians!"

No, like his polling numbers, comparisons definitely aren't Mike Huckabee's strong suit...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-huckabee-kim-davis-slavery_55ec61c4e4b03784e2761cb6

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