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Mike Huckabee Needs a History Lesson

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Defending Kim Davis’s right to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Huckabee compared her actions—erroneously—to Abraham Lincoln’s.

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On MSNBC last week, Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee proclaimed the right for Kim Davis, the recently imprisoned Rowan County, Kentucky clerk, to deny

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