WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee called Sunday for civil disobedience to undermine the Supreme Court’s ruling last week upholding same-sex marriage throughout the country.

Invoking Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Huckabee, a one-time Southern Baptist minister and former Arkansas governor, predicted resistance by pastors and county clerks around the country.

“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,’’ he told ABC’s “This Week.”

“And I do think that we’re going to see a lot of pastors who will have to make this tough decision.”

He added, “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.”