Mike Huckabee

===Role of religion in public life===

Huckabee has voiced his belief in [[intelligent design]] and he has also stated that he does not believe that [[Charles Darwin|Darwin's]] [[natural selection|theory of evolution]] is valid. In July 2004, he was quoted on ''Arkansans Ask'', his regular show on the Arkansas Educational Television Network: "I think that students also should be given exposure to the theories not only of evolution but to the basis of those who believe in [[creationism]]."<ref>{{cite web |date=2005 |last=Wiles |first=Jason |title=Is Evolution Arkansas's Hidden Curriculum? |url=http://ncse.com/rncse/25/1-2/is-evolution-arkansass-hidden-curriculum |publisher=[[National Center for Science Education|NCSE]] |access-date=January 6, 2015}}</ref>

In April 2011, Huckabee said, "I almost wish that there would be a simultaneous telecast and all [[Americans]] would be forced, at gunpoint, to listen to every David Barton message," in praise of the Christian revisionist author [[David Barton (author)|David Barton]].<ref name="barton">{{cite web|url=http://www.thestatecolumn.com/articles/mike-huckabee-americans-to-be-indoctrinated-at-gunpoint/|title=Mike Huckabee: Americans to be indoctrinated at gunpoint|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110406124057/http://www.thestatecolumn.com/articles/mike-huckabee-americans-to-be-indoctrinated-at-gunpoint/|archive-date=April 6, 2011}}</ref>

Within hours of the [[Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting]], Huckabee made headlines in the U.S. and abroad for stating on [[Fox News]]: "We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools," and he further asked, "Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?"<ref>{{cite news |date=December 14, 2012 |last=Collins |first=Gail |title=Looking For America |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/opinion/collins-looking-for-america.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=January 6, 2015}}</ref>

In September 2014, Huckabee said, "Fire the ones who refuse to hear not only our hearts, but God's heart" (for which he was criticized by [[Richard Dawkins]]).<ref>{{cite magazine |date=September 30, 2014 |last1=Dawkins |first1=Richard |last2=Blumner |first2=Robyn |author-link2=Robyn Blumner|title=Atheists Aren't the Problem, Christian Intolerance Is the Problem |url=https://time.com/3450525/atheists-arent-the-problem-christian-intolerance-is-the-problem |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=January 6, 2015}}</ref>

In September 2015, speaking about his support of [[Freedom of religion|religious freedom]] on behalf of [[Kentucky]] county clerk [[Kim Davis]] to radio host [[Michael Medved]], Huckabee said, "Michael, the [[Dred Scott v. Sandford|''Dred Scott'' decision of 1857]] still remains to this day the law of the land which says that [[black people]] aren't fully human. Does anybody still follow the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision?"<ref>{{cite news |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/253292-huckabee-says-dred-scott-still-law-of-land/|title=Huckabee says Dred Scott still 'law of land'|newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/11/mike-huckabee-dred-scott-decision-still-law-land/|title=Mike Huckabee: Dred Scott decision still 'the law of the land'|newspaper=[[The Washington Times]]}}</ref> (The decision in ''Dred Scott v. Sandford'' had been superseded by the [[Civil Rights Act of 1866]] and nullified by the [[Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Thirteenth]] and [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourteenth Amendments]] to the [[United States Constitution|U.S. Constitution]].)

In June 2016, Huckabee, along with actor [[Pat Boone]] and executive producer Troy Duhon, all of whom were involved in the film ''[[God's Not Dead 2]]'', sent a letter to California governor [[Jerry Brown]] opposing Senate Bill 1146, which "prohibits a person from being subjected to discrimination" at California colleges. Other than religious schools—those that train pastors and theology teachers—schools "might no longer be allowed to hire Christian-only staff, teach religious ideas in regular classes, require attendance at chapel services or keep bathrooms and dormitories restricted to either males or females."<ref>{{cite web|last=Bond|first=Paul|date=June 30, 2016|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gods-not-dead-2-filmmakers-907838|title=''God's Not Dead 2'' Filmmakers Wade Into California Politics|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=August 24, 2016}}</ref>