Huckabee is the only Republican presidential candidate scheduled to appear at Ebenezer Baptist Church for Martin Luther King, Jr., memorial festivities in Atlanta. He was invited by King’s niece who said she agrees with his positions on abortion and traditional marriage.

This is the guy who wrapped himself in the Confederate battle flag Thursday telling South Carolinians, “(Y)ou don’t like people from outside the state telling you what to do with the flag… in fact, if somebody came down to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we’d tell ’em where to put the pole.”

Ironically, earlier this morning Huckabee attended a prayer breakfast hosted by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The SCLC is the out-of-state civil rights group that in 1999 canceled its national convention that was scheduled to be held in Charleston, S.C., “to protest lawmakers’ refusal to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state’s Capitol dome.” Martin Luther King III, president of the SCLC, said at the time, “We cannot, at this point in history, resurrect ghosts of the past and allow the resurgence of racism, discrimination and the politics of resentment that the Confederate flag reclaims.”

So where exactly were they supposed to put the pole? Perhaps someone asked Huckabee after he finished his eggs and bacon.