Mike Huckabee Says Christians Will Be Forced to Choose Between God and Gay Marriage Ruling

2016 presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee recently addressed the Supreme Court ruling regarding same-sex marriage, saying he doesn't think Christians are going to have a choice regarding their religious freedoms and how they relate to the recent ruling.

Last week, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right, thus overturning individual state bans on the unions.

Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, said over the weekend on ABC's "This Week" that he believes Christians will be forced to choose between following the law or their beliefs regarding same-sex marriage as sin.

"I don't think a lot of pastors and Christian schools are going to have a choice. They either are going to follow God, their conscience, and what they truly believe is what the Scripture teaches them or they will follow civil law," Huckabee said Sunday on "This Week."

"They will go the path of Dr. Martin Luther King, who in his brilliant essay the letters from a Birmingham jail reminded us, based on what St. Augustine said, that an unjust law is no law at all. And I do think that we're going to see a lot of pastors who will have to make this tough decision," Huckabee added.

Another 2016 presidential hopeful, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, wrote in an Op-Ed for Time Magazine that perhaps the government should not recognize marriage altogether.

"I acknowledge the right to contract in all economic and personal spheres, but that doesn't mean there isn't a danger that a government that involves itself in every nook and cranny of our lives won't now enforce definitions that conflict with sincerely felt religious convictions of others," Paul wrote.